Bull ants are solitary foragers, hunting alone even though they live in colonies. Here, a worker Myrmecia nigriceps descends a tree trunk in a eucalypt woodland.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Bull ants are solitary foragers, hunting alone even though they live in colonies. Here, a worker Myrmecia nigriceps descends a tree trunk in a eucalypt woodland.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
The desert sun sets over a nest of Pogonomyrmex barbatus harvester ants.

Sycamore Canyon, Arizona, USA
The desert sun sets over a nest of Pogonomyrmex barbatus harvester ants.

Sycamore Canyon, Arizona, USA
The desert sun sets over a nest of Pogonomyrmex barbatus harvester ants.

Sycamore Canyon, Arizona, USA
The desert sun sets over a nest of Pogonomyrmex barbatus harvester ants.

Sycamore Canyon, Arizona, USA
The desert sun sets over a nest of Pogonomyrmex barbatus harvester ants.

Sycamore Canyon, Arizona, USA
The desert sun sets over a nest of Pogonomyrmex barbatus harvester ants.

Sycamore Canyon, Arizona, USA
The desert sun sets over a nest of Pogonomyrmex barbatus harvester ants.

Sycamore Canyon, Arizona, USA
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