alexwild > Solenopsis pergandei queen and workers.  

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Formica ravida alate queen searching for a potential host colony.  This species is parasitic in the colony-founding stage, as newly-mated queens enter nests of other Formica species, kill the resident queen, and usurp the colony.

California, USA
alexwild > Pseudomyrmex gracilis dealate queen.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Pogonomyrmex barbatus alate queen.

Sycamore Canyon, Arizona, USA
alexwild > Pogonomyrmex barbatus alate queen.

Sycamore Canyon, Arizona, USA
alexwild > A young queen harvester ant (Aphaenogaster albisetosa) emerges from the nest on the morning of her mating flight.

Green Valley, Arizona, USA
alexwild > Aphaenogaster cockerelli alate queen.

Laboratory colony at Arizona State University
alexwild > Solenopsis pergandei queen and workers.  

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Solenopsis pergandei queen and workers.  The workers spend their entire lives underground and are nearly blind, but the queen's large eyes are used early in her life when she disperses from her natal nest to start a new colony.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Solenopsis pergandei queen and workers.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Solenopsis pergandei queen and workers.  

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Solenopsis pergandei queen and workers.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
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