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A Pheidole minor worker has picked up a beetle carcass and is carrying it back to her nest. Ants are important scavengers and recyclers of dead arthropods. Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
A Pheidole minor worker has picked up a beetle carcass and is carrying it back to her nest. Ants are important scavengers and recyclers of dead arthropods. Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
A Pheidole minor worker has picked up a beetle carcass and is carrying it back to her nest. Ants are important scavengers and recyclers of dead arthropods. Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
Ants are dominant scavengers in most terrestrial ecosystems. Carcasses of other arthropods are quickly discovered and carried back to the nest. Here, Anonychomyrma workers cooperate to transport the body of a dead carpenter ant. Harrietville, Vicotoria, Australia
Dolichoderus scabridus foraging worker. Harrietville, Victoria, Australia
Bull ants are solitary foragers, hunting alone even though they live in colonies. Here, a worker Myrmecia nigriceps descends a tree trunk in a eucalypt woodland. Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Gathering pollen and nectar from the fall bloom of New England asters.
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