alexwild > Pseudomyrmex gracilis is a large, active, and alert ant found from the southern United States to northern Argentina.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Pseudomyrmex gracilis is a large, active, and alert ant found from the southern United States to northern Argentina.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Breaking open a hollow twig in the Florida scrub reveals a nest of the twig ant Pseudomyrmex gracilis.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Pseudomyrmex ejectus nests in hollow twigs.  Here a worker poses by the nest entrance.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Cracking open a twig reveals a small nest of Pseudomyrmex ejectus.  The elongate shape of these gracile insects allows them to maneuver in tight spaces.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Tetraponera merita

Madagascar
alexwild > Pseudomyrmex gracilis dealate queen.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Arboreal Tetraponera nest in hollow spaces of twigs and branches.  The ants' slender bodies allow them to maneuver in narrow spaces. (Tetraponera laeviceps).

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
alexwild > Pseudomyrmex spinicola acacia ants guarding a nest entrance.  This species has a painful sting and a much more aggressive temperment than most other Pseudomyrmex, an effective deterrent to large vertebrate herbivores.  

Chiriqui, Panama
Pseudomyrmex gracilis is a large, active, and alert ant found from the southern United States to northern Argentina.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Pseudomyrmex gracilis is a large, active, and alert ant found from the southern United States to northern Argentina.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Pseudomyrmex gracilis is a large, active, and alert ant found from the southern United States to northern Argentina.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
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