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Male ants are specialized for mating and dispersal and often appear vastly different from their sisters. The little winged insect at center is a male Odontomachus sp. trap-jaw ant; the rest are female workers. 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 are specialized for mating and dispersal and often appear vastly different from their sisters. The little winged insect at center is a male Odontomachus sp. trap-jaw ant; the rest are female workers. 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)
Early morning sun catches a mating flight of Forelius mccooki in the Sonoran desert. Tucson, Arizona, USA
Male and female Forelius mccooki in the nest. Tucson, Arizona, USA
A Trachymyrmex septentrionalis male ascends a leaf to embark on an afternoon mating flight in the Florida sand scrub. Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Odontomachus clarus. Male ants betray the wasp ancestry of ants, often bearing little resemblance to the females of the species. This is a male of the desert trap-jaw ant. Tucson, Arizona, USA
Mycetarotes fungus garden in a lab nest. Male ants, seen here as the winged, dark-colored individuals, perform no labor in the colony, serving instead to disperse the colonies' genes during periodic mating flights outside the nest. Parque Nacional Iguazu, Argentina; Laboratory colony at the University of Texas
Male ants are specialized for mating and dispersal and often appear vastly different from their sisters. The little winged insect at center is a male Odontomachus sp. trap-jaw ant; the rest are female workers.

Cambodia (Laboratory colony at the University of Illinois)
Male ants are specialized for mating and dispersal and often appear vastly different from their sisters. The little winged insect at center is a male Odontomachus sp. trap-jaw ant; the rest are female workers. Cambodia (Laboratory colony at the University of Illinois)
Male ants are specialized for mating and dispersal and often appear vastly different from their sisters. The little winged insect at center is a male Odontomachus sp. trap-jaw ant; the rest are female workers.

Cambodia (Laboratory colony at the University of Illinois)
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