alexwild > Nylanderia guatemalensis, worker carrying a larva. 

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Paratrechina longicornis - black crazy ant.  Along a sun-soaked beach on a Panamanian island, ants drink from nectaries on the underside of a leaf.  Many plants attract ants with nectaries, and the ants in return help remove the plant's herbivorous pests.

Isla Contadora, Panama
alexwild > Brachymyrmex obscurior is a South American species that has been introduced to tropical and subtropical climates around the world.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Brachymyrmex obscurior rover ants carry sand grains out from an excavation deep within their nest.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Strumigenys rogeri miniature trap-jaw ant foraging in a rotting log.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Anochetus mayri is a small species broadly distributed in the Caribbean and Central and South America.  This individual is from a population that has recently colonized suburban Florida, becoming one of many non-native ant species in the state.

West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
alexwild > Anochetus mayri is a small species broadly distributed in the Caribbean and Central and South America.  This individual is from a population that has recently colonized suburban Florida, becoming one of many non-native ant species in the state.

West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
alexwild > Paratrechina longicornis - black crazy ant.  Along a sun-soaked beach on a Panamanian island, ants drink from nectaries on the underside of a leaf.  Many plants attract ants with nectaries, and the ants in return help remove the plant's herbivorous pests.

Isla Contadora, Panama
alexwild > Paratrechina longicornis nestmate workers, their social stomachs engorged with sugar water.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Nylanderia guatemalensis, worker carrying a larva.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Nylanderia guatemalensis, worker carrying a larva. 

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Nylanderia guatemalensis, worker carrying a larva.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
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