Acyrthosiphon pisum pea aphids.

Davis, California, USA
The hatching of a young silkworm Bombyx mori.
An egg of the question mark butterfly Polygonia interrogationis.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
Younger bed bugs are lighter in color than adults. 

Chicago, Illinois, USA
Iridomyrmex purpureus. A young meat ant queen searches for a place to start a nest.

Little Desert National Park, Victoria, Australia
Hypoponera opacior, worker and ergatoid male.  Most ant males are wasp-like and winged, adapted for dispersing away from their home nest to mate with queens from other colonies.  But some Hypoponera males are inbreeding specialists.  These pale creatures are worker-like in appearance and mate with their sisters in the nest.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Tetraponera clypeata foundress queen inside an Acacia thorn.

St. Lucia, KZN, South Africa
Pogonomyrmex occidentalis, the western harvester ants, mating

Hallelujah Junction, California, USA
Iridomyrmex purpureus. A young meat ant queen searches for a place to start a nest.

Little Desert National Park, Victoria, Australia
Iridomyrmex purpureus. A young meat ant queen searches for a place to start a nest.

Little Desert National Park, Victoria, Australia
Iridomyrmex purpureus. A young meat ant queen searches for a place to start a nest.

Little Desert National Park, Victoria, Australia
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