Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus spider ants scurry to carry brood to safety after the photographer uncovers their nest.

Harrietville, Victoria, Australia
Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus spider ants scurry to carry brood to safety after the photographer uncovers their nest.

Harrietville, Victoria, Australia
Doleromyrma darwiniana worker tending to developing larvae.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Doleromyrma darwiniana worker tending to developing larvae.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Pheidole sp.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
A gregarious cluster of Paropsisterna eucalyptus leaf beetles. These insects are chemically defended and are apparently more successful in advertising that fact in numbers.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Monomorium sydneyense brood nest. 

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia
Doleromyrma darwiniana worker tending to developing larvae.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Eggs and young larvae inside the brood nest of Oecophylla smaragdina weaver ants.

Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Monomorium sydneyense brood nest.

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia
Monomorium sydneyense brood nest. 

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia
Monomorium sydneyense brood nest.

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia
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