alexwild > Formica aserva, worker.

California, USA
alexwild > Formica integroides workers tending pine aphids.  The ants obtain a large portion of their energy from symbiotic relationships with hemipterans such as these aphids.

Sagehen Creek, California, USA
alexwild > Pseudomyrmex gracilis dealate queen.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Camponotus floridanus

Archbold Biological Station, Florida
alexwild > Camponotus punctulatus, major worker.

Ubajay, Entre Rios, Argentina
alexwild > Monomorium rothsteini, worker removing a heavy stone from the nest.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
alexwild > Leptomyrmex rufipes.  A spider ant worker, gaster raised characteristically above her body. 

Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia
alexwild > Leptomyrmex rufipes workers cooperate to bring a grasshopper carcass back to their nest.

Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia
alexwild > A Leptomyrmex rufipes forager grasps the wing of a grasshopper carcass to drag it back to her nest.  Ants are important scavengers in terrestrial ecosystems.

Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia
Formica aserva, worker.

California, USA
alexwild > Formica aserva, worker.

California, USA
Formica aserva, worker.

California, USA
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