alexwild > A Lasius pallitarsis worker feeds the carcasses of fungus gnats to hungry larvae in the brood nest. This species is among the most abundant ants in the Sierra Nevada.

Sagehen Creek Field Station, California, USA
alexwild > Formica pergandei carry a caterpillar they have caught back to the nest.

South Bristol, New York, USA
alexwild > Formica gnava foraging worker carrying a bark louse it has caught.

Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, USA
alexwild > Formica aserva, worker.

California, USA
alexwild > Formica ravida alate queen searching for a potential host colony.  This species is parasitic in the colony-founding stage, as newly-mated queens enter nests of other Formica species, kill the resident queen, and usurp the colony.

California, USA
alexwild > Formica integroides workers tending pine aphids.  The ants obtain a large portion of their energy from symbiotic relationships with hemipterans such as these aphids.

Sagehen Creek, California, USA
alexwild > Nylanderia guatemalensis

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

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > A nest of Nylanderia ants in the leaf litter, hidden away in a rotting acorn.

Dixon Springs, Illinois, USA
A Lasius pallitarsis worker feeds the carcasses of fungus gnats to hungry larvae in the brood nest. This species is among the most abundant ants in the Sierra Nevada.

Sagehen Creek Field Station, California, USA
alexwild > A Lasius pallitarsis worker feeds the carcasses of fungus gnats to hungry larvae in the brood nest. This species is among the most abundant ants in the Sierra Nevada.

Sagehen Creek Field Station, California, USA
A Lasius pallitarsis worker feeds the carcasses of fungus gnats to hungry larvae in the brood nest. This species is among the most abundant ants in the Sierra Nevada.

Sagehen Creek Field Station, California, USA
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