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 gracilis dealate queen.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
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
alexwild > Not all of the thorns on a swollen-thorn Acacia house the ants' larvae, but those that do are heavily guarded.  Here, Pseudomyrmex spinicola patrol a nest entrance, ready to use their stings if the photographer approaches too close.  

Chiriqui, Panama.
alexwild > Pseudomyrmex apache.  Ants of the genus Pseudomyrmex inhabit pre-existing cavities in wood and vegetation, in this case an old wood-boring beetle burrow.

Tucson, Arizona, USA
alexwild > Pseudomyrmex pallidus

Tucson, Arizona, USA
alexwild > The swollen thorns of this Panamanian Acacia tree house a colony of fierce Pseudomyrmex spinicola ants.  

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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