Technomyrmex albipes - white-footed ant tending to a mealybug (Pseudococcidae) for honeydew. 

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
A Crematogaster acrobat ant worker tends eucalypt scale insects for honeydew.

Harrietville, Victoria, Australia
A Crematogaster acrobat ant worker tends eucalypt scale insects for honeydew.

Harrietville, Victoria, Australia
A Crematogaster acrobat ant worker tends eucalypt scale insects for honeydew.

Harrietville, Victoria, Australia
Technomyrmex albipes - white-footed ant tending to a mealybug (Pseudococcidae) for honeydew. 

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
Linepithema humile Argentine ants tend to mealybugs.

Quito, Ecuador
Myrmelachista workers with brood and mealybugs inside a domatium of a Tococa plant.

Jatun Sacha reserve, Napo, Ecuador
Myrmelachista workers with brood and mealybugs inside a domatium of a Tococa plant.

Jatun Sacha reserve, Napo, Ecuador
Monomorium floricola ranks among the most traveled of all ants.  This diminutive species has spread with human commerce to nearly every lowland tropical region.  Here, a worker tends to a mealybug in Panama.

Isla Contadora, Panama
Linepithema humile Argentine ants tend to mealybugs.

Quito, Ecuador
Linepithema humile Argentine ants tend to mealybugs.

Quito, Ecuador
Linepithema humile Argentine ants tend to mealybugs.

Quito, Ecuador
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