A minor worker of Pheidole aberrans, a small but ambitious South American harvester ant, lugs a grass seed to her nest. Correa, Santa Fe, Argentina
Pheidole xanthogaster Jatun Sacha reserve, Napo, Ecuador
A Pheidole minor worker has picked up a beetle carcass and is carrying it back to her nest. Ants are important scavengers and recyclers of dead arthropods. Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia