Monomorium pharaonis - pharaoh ant.

Icononzo, Tolima, Colombia
Raspberry flowers provide nectar to attract flighted pollinators like bees and flies, but ants sometimes sneak in to steal the bounty. (Nylanderia bourbonica)

Orlando, Florida, USA
Raspberry flowers provide nectar to attract flighted pollinators like bees and flies, but ants sometimes sneak in to steal the bounty. (Nylanderia bourbonica)

Orlando, Florida, USA
Salticus scenicus, the zebra spider, is a European jumping spider that is now common across North America.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
Vollenhovia emeryi is an Asian species introduced accidentally to Washington, D.C. It is currently spreading slowly in several east coast cities.

Washington, DC, USA
Nylanderia guatemalensis, worker carrying a larva. 

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Paratrechina longicornis - black crazy ant.  Along a sun-soaked beach on a Panamanian island, ants drink from nectaries on the underside of a leaf.  Many plants attract ants with nectaries, and the ants in return help remove the plant's herbivorous pests.

Isla Contadora, Panama
Nylanderia bourbonica is a tramp species that has spread with commerce to warmer regions around the world.

West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Pseudomyrmex gracilis is a large, active, and alert ant found from the southern United States to northern Argentina.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Vollenhovia emeryi is an Asian species introduced accidentally to Washington, D.C. It is currently spreading slowly in several east coast cities.

Washington, DC, USA
Vollenhovia emeryi is an Asian species introduced accidentally to Washington, D.C. It is currently spreading slowly in several east coast cities.

Washington, DC, USA
Vollenhovia emeryi is an Asian species introduced accidentally to Washington, D.C. It is currently spreading slowly in several east coast cities.

Washington, DC, USA
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