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These Aphaenogaster lamellidens foragers have discovered a live centipede and are attempting to pull it from its burrow. Dixon Springs, Illinois, USA
These Aphaenogaster lamellidens foragers have discovered a live centipede and are attempting to pull it from its burrow. Dixon Springs, Illinois, USA
Leptomyrmex rufipes workers cooperate to bring a grasshopper carcass back to their nest. Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia
Neivamyrmex melanocephalus army ants initiating a live-ant bridge with their own bodies. Here two ants lean against each other while a third starts to climb. Sycamore Canyon, Arizona, USA
A pair of Anonychomyrma ants cooperate to bring a piece of an insect carcass back to their nest. Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
Leptomyrmex rufipes workers cooperate to bring a grasshopper carcass back to their nest. Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia
Leptomyrmex rufipes workers cooperate to bring a grasshopper carcass back to their nest. Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia
Pheidole obscurithorax stays ahead of the competition using group retrieval of food items (in this case, a scavenged wasp carcass). Working together the ants can usually get the bounty home before a more aggressive species usurps their find. P. obscurithorax is a regular competitor of Solenopsis fire ants, both in its native Argentina and along the U.S. gulf coast where both species have been introduced. Entre Rios, Argentina
Neivamyrmex melanocephalus army ants initiating a live-ant bridge with their own bodies. Here two ants lean against each other while a third starts to climb. Sycamore Canyon, Arizona, USA
These Aphaenogaster lamellidens foragers have discovered a live centipede and are attempting to pull it from its burrow.

Dixon Springs, Illinois, USA
These Aphaenogaster lamellidens foragers have discovered a live centipede and are attempting to pull it from its burrow. Dixon Springs, Illinois, USA
These Aphaenogaster lamellidens foragers have discovered a live centipede and are attempting to pull it from its burrow.

Dixon Springs, Illinois, USA
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