alexwild > 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
alexwild > Nylanderia bourbonica is a tramp species that has spread with commerce to warmer regions around the world.

West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
alexwild > Brachymyrmex obscurior is a South American species that has been introduced to tropical and subtropical climates around the world.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Brachymyrmex obscurior rover ants carry sand grains out from an excavation deep within their nest.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Strumigenys rogeri miniature trap-jaw ant foraging in a rotting log.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Wasmannia auropunctata workers feeding on a cookie crumb set out as bait by researchers in Buenos Aires.  Shortbread cookies make good baits for myrmicine ants.

Buenos Aires, Argentina
alexwild > 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
alexwild > Paratrechina longicornis nestmate workers, their social stomachs engorged with sugar water.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Solenopsis geminata is a seed harvesting ant, and major workers have massive heads for powering the blunt seed-milling mandibles.

Durban, South Africa
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
alexwild > 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
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
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