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Camponotus rufipes worker ants tending treehopper nymphs for honeydew. Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Trigona stingless bees rob nectar from a bird of paradise flower. Note the holes the bees have chewed in the petals, allowing them to take nectar without gathering pollen. Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
A nearly blind Acropyga goeldii worker ant tends to root-feeding mealybugs in an underground chamber. The ants depend on their hemipteran "cattle" for food, while the mealybugs are kept safe from predators and carried to new roots by their ant guards. Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
An Acropyga goeldii worker carries a mealybug. Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
A Nylanderia worker tends to a scale insect for honeydew. Morretes, Paraná, Brazil
When both Acromyrmex disciger leafcutting ants and Pheidole vafra big-headed ants arrive at a cookie bait I placed on the ground, fighting ensues. Although the Pheidole won this particular fight, the larger battle went to the leafcutters, and within 20 minutes of taking this photo the Pheidole had vanished. Morretes, Paraná, Brazil
Tetramorium bicarinatum foragers gather sugar-laden nectar from the underside of a leaf. Orlando, Florida, USA
Tetramorium bicarinatum workers gather nectar from glands of an invasive mallow. Some plants use nectar to attract ants as a defense against herbivorous insects, as ants also eat insect eggs and caterpillars. Orlando, Florida, USA
A worker ant (Technomyrmex difficilis) tending aphids. Orlando, Florida, USA
Tetramorium bicarinatum foragers gather sugar-laden nectar from the underside of a leaf.

Orlando, Florida, USA
Tetramorium bicarinatum foragers gather sugar-laden nectar from the underside of a leaf. Orlando, Florida, USA
Tetramorium bicarinatum foragers gather sugar-laden nectar from the underside of a leaf.

Orlando, Florida, USA
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