alexwild > This predatory Rhytidoponera worker has captured a caterpillar and is carrying it back to her nest.

Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia
alexwild > Odontomachus cephalotes

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
alexwild > Proceratium californicum

Jasper Ridge, California, USA
alexwild > Proceratium californicum

Jasper Ridge, California, USA
alexwild > Odontomachus coquereli

Madagascar
alexwild > Odontomachus cephalotes

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
alexwild > An Odontomachus bauri worker has captured an earthworm and is carrying it home.

Gamboa, Panama
alexwild > Odontomachus bauri trap-jaw ants showing some of the different mandible positions.

La Selva, Heredia, Costa Rica
alexwild > Odontomachus bauri.  Trap-jaw ants are normally thought of as predators, but they also tend honeydew-producing insects.

Gamboa, Panama
This predatory Rhytidoponera worker has captured a caterpillar and is carrying it back to her nest.

Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia
alexwild > This predatory Rhytidoponera worker has captured a caterpillar and is carrying it back to her nest.

Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia
This predatory Rhytidoponera worker has captured a caterpillar and is carrying it back to her nest.

Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia
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