Cyphomyrmex wheeleri is the most temperate of the Cyphomyrmex species, occurring as far north as San Francisco, California.  Here worker ants tend to their fungus garden.

Austin, Texas, USA
Cyphomyrmex flavidus

Sycamore Canyon, Arizona, USA
Cyphomyrmex wheeleri is the most temperate of the Cyphomyrmex species, occurring as far north as San Francisco, California.  Here worker ants tend to their fungus garden.

Austin, Texas, USA
Cyphomyrmex costatus in their edible fungal galleries.

Panama
Cyphomyrmex rimosus

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Castes in an ant colony (from left): worker, males, queen. Cyphomyrmex wheeleri.

Austin, Texas, USA
Cyphomyrmex flavidus

Sycamore Canyon, Arizona, USA
Cyphomyrmex rimosus, queen.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Cyphomyrmex wheeleri is the most temperate of the Cyphomyrmex species, occurring as far north as San Francisco, California.  Here worker ants tend to their fungus garden.

Austin, Texas, USA
Cyphomyrmex wheeleri is the most temperate of the Cyphomyrmex species, occurring as far north as San Francisco, California. Here worker ants tend to their fungus garden.

Austin, Texas, USA
Cyphomyrmex wheeleri is the most temperate of the Cyphomyrmex species, occurring as far north as San Francisco, California.  Here worker ants tend to their fungus garden.

Austin, Texas, USA
Cyphomyrmex wheeleri is the most temperate of the Cyphomyrmex species, occurring as far north as San Francisco, California. Here worker ants tend to their fungus garden.

Austin, Texas, USA
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