Trachymyrmex septentrionalis workers carrying sand excavated from deep in the nest.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
An Odontomachus bauri worker has captured an earthworm and is carrying it home.

Gamboa, Panama
Odontomachus bauri. Millisecnds ahead of a mandible strike, a tropical trap-jaw ant closes in on its cricket prey.

La Selva, Heredia, Costa Rica
Odontomachus bauri with a young cricket it has caught.

La Selva, Heredia, Costa Rica
Trachymyrmex septentrionalis workers carrying sand excavated from deep in the nest.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
An Odontomachus bauri worker has captured an earthworm and is carrying it home.

Gamboa, Panama
Odontomachus bauri with a young cricket it has caught.

La Selva, Heredia, Costa Rica
Odontomachus bauri. Millisecnds ahead of a mandible strike, a tropical trap-jaw ant closes in on its cricket prey.

La Selva, Heredia, Costa Rica
An Odontomachus bauri worker has captured an earthworm and is carrying it home.

Gamboa, Panama
Trachymyrmex septentrionalis workers carrying sand excavated from deep in the nest.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Trachymyrmex septentrionalis workers carrying sand excavated from deep in the nest.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Trachymyrmex septentrionalis workers carrying sand excavated from deep in the nest.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
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