Many Pheidole species are granivores. Here, a minor worker transports a grass seed back to her nest.

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia
A Pheidole minor worker has picked up a beetle carcass and is carrying it back to her nest. Ants are important scavengers and recyclers of dead arthropods.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
A Pheidole minor worker has picked up a beetle carcass and is carrying it back to her nest. Ants are important scavengers and recyclers of dead arthropods.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
Pheidole sp.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
Pheidole sp.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
A Pheidole minor worker has picked up a beetle carcass and is carrying it back to her nest. Ants are important scavengers and recyclers of dead arthropods.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
Pheidole sp.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
Many Pheidole species are granivores. Here, a minor worker transports a grass seed back to her nest.

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia
Pheidole obscurithorax is a South American native that has been introduced to the U.S. gulf coast. 

Pensacola, Florida, USA
Many Pheidole species are granivores. Here, a minor worker transports a grass seed back to her nest.

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia
Many Pheidole species are granivores. Here, a minor worker transports a grass seed back to her nest.

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia
Many Pheidole species are granivores. Here, a minor worker transports a grass seed back to her nest.

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia
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