Male ants often look little like their sisters. This is an Odontomachus sp. trap-jaw ant.

Cambodia (Laboratory colony at the University of Illinois)
Myrmecologist Jack Longino takes a good look at a male Dorylus driver ant. These enormous insects are specialized for dispersal and mating, looking very little like their more typycally ant-like sisters.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
Myrmecologist Jack Longino takes a good look at a male Dorylus driver ant. These enormous insects are specialized for dispersal and mating, looking very little like their more typycally ant-like sisters.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
Myrmecologist Jack Longino takes a good look at a male Dorylus driver ant. These enormous insects are specialized for dispersal and mating, looking very little like their more typycally ant-like sisters.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
This male Aenictogiton arrived at a mercury-vapor lamp at dusk in a western Ugandan forest.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
This male Aenictogiton arrived at a mercury-vapor lamp at dusk in a western Ugandan forest.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
Myrmecologist Jack Longino takes a good look at a male Dorylus driver ant. These enormous insects are specialized for dispersal and mating, looking very little like their more typycally ant-like sisters.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
This male Aenictogiton arrived at a mercury-vapor lamp at dusk in a western Ugandan forest.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
This male Aenictogiton arrived at a mercury-vapor lamp at dusk in a western Ugandan forest.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
Male ants often look little like their sisters. This is an Odontomachus sp. trap-jaw ant.

Cambodia (Laboratory colony at the University of Illinois)
Male ants often look little like their sisters. This is an Odontomachus sp. trap-jaw ant.

Cambodia (Laboratory colony at the University of Illinois)
Male ants often look little like their sisters. This is an Odontomachus sp. trap-jaw ant.

Cambodia (Laboratory colony at the University of Illinois)
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