Male ants often look little like their sisters. This is an Odontomachus sp. trap-jaw ant.

Cambodia (Laboratory colony at the University of Illinois)
This male Aenictogiton arrived at a mercury-vapor lamp at dusk in a western Ugandan forest.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
This male Aenictogiton arrived at a mercury-vapor lamp at dusk in a western Ugandan forest.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
This male Aenictogiton arrived at a mercury-vapor lamp at dusk in a western Ugandan forest.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
This male Aenictogiton arrived at a mercury-vapor lamp at dusk in a western Ugandan forest.

Kibale Forest, Uganda
Male ants often look little like their sisters. This is an Odontomachus sp. trap-jaw ant.

Cambodia (Laboratory colony at the University of Illinois)
Prenolepis imparis is the first ant to hold mating flights every year in temperate North America. Alates wait out the winter and emerge on the first warm spring days. This photo was taken in early March.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
Prenolepis imparis is the first ant to hold mating flights every year in temperate North America. Alates wait out the winter and emerge on the first warm spring days. This photo was taken in early March.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
Prenolepis imparis is the first ant to hold mating flights every year in temperate North America. Alates wait out the winter and emerge on the first warm spring days. This photo was taken in early March.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
Male ants often look little like their sisters. This is an Odontomachus sp. trap-jaw ant.

Cambodia (Laboratory colony at the University of Illinois)
Male ants often look little like their sisters. This is an Odontomachus sp. trap-jaw ant.

Cambodia (Laboratory colony at the University of Illinois)
Male ants often look little like their sisters. This is an Odontomachus sp. trap-jaw ant.

Cambodia (Laboratory colony at the University of Illinois)
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