Ants of the Camponotus subgenus Myrmobrachys often walk with their gasters tucked characteristically under their bodies.

Monte Verde, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ants have trash workers, too! Here, a Dorymyrmex brunneus sanitation worker carries the empty carcass of a consumed prey insect out to the colony's midden pile.

Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Oxyepoecus reticulatus 

Monte Verde, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Nomamyrmex esenbeckii 

Monte Verde, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Camponotus rufipes is among the most common ant species in parts of South America.

Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Nylanderia parvula

Urbana, Illinois, USA
Nylanderia parvula

Urbana, Illinois, USA
Wasmannia auropunctata, the little fire ant.

Orlando, Florida, USA
Portrait of a Papyrius worker.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Nylanderia parvula

Urbana, Illinois, USA
Nylanderia parvula

Urbana, Illinois, USA
Nylanderia parvula

Urbana, Illinois, USA
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