An Inga tree offers up nectar to a Dolichoderus bispinosus forager. 

Armenia, Belize
Eciton hamatum army ant soldier. This portrait is a composite of 32 photographs taken at different focal depths and stacked to produce an artificially sharp image. 

Armenia, Belize
Eciton hamatum army ant soldier. This portrait is a composite of 32 photographs taken at different focal depths and stacked to produce an artificially sharp image. 

Armenia, Belize
In exchange for protection, swollen-thorn Acacia trees provide Pseudomyrmex ants with food and shelter.  Here an ant feeds from a leaf nectary. (Pseudomyrmex spinicola)

Chiriqui, Panama
Eciton hamatum army ant soldier. This portrait is a composite of 64 photographs taken at different focal depths and stacked to produce an artificially sharp image. The unusual single-lens eyes are unique to this genus and may be the result of re-evolved vision from blind ancestors.

Armenia, Belize
Eciton hamatum army ant soldier. This portrait is a composite of 32 photographs taken at different focal depths and stacked to produce an artificially sharp image. 

Armenia, Belize
An Inga tree offers up nectar to a Dolichoderus bispinosus forager. 

Armenia, Belize
Messor pergandei harvester ant. The large heads of major workers house muscles for milling seeds. 

Palm Desert, California, USA
Dolichoderus bispinosus is among the most common and widespread ants in the Neotropics.

Armenia, Belize
An Inga tree offers up nectar to a Dolichoderus bispinosus forager.

Armenia, Belize
An Inga tree offers up nectar to a Dolichoderus bispinosus forager. 

Armenia, Belize
An Inga tree offers up nectar to a Dolichoderus bispinosus forager.

Armenia, Belize
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