Cephalotes umbraculatus turtle ant fighting an aspirator. Archidona, Napo, Ecuador
Specimens of Atta leafcutter queens stored in ethanol with samples of their fungus. University of Texas
Myrmecologists often start new laboratory colonies from young mated queens. This Solenopsis molesta thief ant queen was collected after her midsummer mating flight and placed in a standard test tube nest. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
