Myrmecologist Jack Longino takes a good look at a male Dorylus driver ant. These enormous insects are specialized for dispersal and mating, looking very little like their more typycally ant-like sisters.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
Myrmecologist Jack Longino takes a good look at a male Dorylus driver ant. These enormous insects are specialized for dispersal and mating, looking very little like their more typycally ant-like sisters.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
Myrmecologist Jack Longino takes a good look at a male Dorylus driver ant. These enormous insects are specialized for dispersal and mating, looking very little like their more typycally ant-like sisters.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
Myrmecologist Jack Longino takes a good look at a male Dorylus driver ant. These enormous insects are specialized for dispersal and mating, looking very little like their more typycally ant-like sisters.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
A young Lasius (Acanthomyops) interjectus queen climbs vegetation to help launch herself on a mating flight. This species is a social parasite, and following her flight this queen will infiltrate the nest of another Lasius species and attempt to usurp the resident queen.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
A young Lasius (Acanthomyops) interjectus queen climbs vegetation to help launch herself on a mating flight. This species is a social parasite, and following her flight this queen will infiltrate the nest of another Lasius species and attempt to usurp the resident queen.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
Pogonomyrmex barbatus alate queen.

Sycamore Canyon, Arizona, USA
Pogonomyrmex barbatus alate queen.

Sycamore Canyon, Arizona, USA
A male harvester ant (Aphaenogaster albisetosa) launches himself on a morning mating flight.

Green Valley, Arizona, USA
Myrmecologist Jack Longino takes a good look at a male Dorylus driver ant. These enormous insects are specialized for dispersal and mating, looking very little like their more typycally ant-like sisters.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
Myrmecologist Jack Longino takes a good look at a male Dorylus driver ant. These enormous insects are specialized for dispersal and mating, looking very little like their more typycally ant-like sisters.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
Myrmecologist Jack Longino takes a good look at a male Dorylus driver ant. These enormous insects are specialized for dispersal and mating, looking very little like their more typycally ant-like sisters.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
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