The small acrobat ant Crematogaster steinheili is a common inhabitant of dead branches in Caribbean forests. Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico.
C. stollii inhabits enclosed carton nests and tunnels that run along tree trunks in Neotropical rainforests, and this species is rarely seen out in the open. Here, a worker pays back the photographer's disturbance of her tunnel with a bite. Refugio Amazonas, Tambopata, Peru.
Crematogaster acrobat ants feeding from the nectaries of a Heliconia flower. MisahuallĂ, Napo, Ecuador