Camponotus rufipes worker ants tending treehopper nymphs for honeydew.

Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Camponotus rufipes worker ants tending treehopper nymphs for honeydew.

Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Camponotus rufipes worker ants tending treehopper nymphs for honeydew.

Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
A Nylanderia worker tends to a scale insect for honeydew.

Morretes, Paraná, Brazil
Fighting ensues when both Acromyrmex disciger leafcutting ants and Pheidole vafra big-headed ants arrive at a cookie bait. 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
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
As the sun sets over a grazed cerrado remnant, Júlio Chaul looks for ants nesting in disturbed soil.

Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
A scale insect tended by Crematogaster ants.

Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Camponotus rufipes worker ants tending treehopper nymphs for honeydew.

Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Camponotus rufipes worker ants tending treehopper nymphs for honeydew.

Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Camponotus rufipes worker ants tending treehopper nymphs for honeydew.

Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Camponotus rufipes worker ants tending treehopper nymphs for honeydew.

Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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