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alexwild > Acromyrmex versicolor - Desert Leafcutter. filename: versicolor34
alexwild > Acromyrmex versicolor - Desert Leafcutter Ant - Arizona, USA. A young queen leafcutter ant in her incipient fungus garden. The fungus, seen here as the fuzzy white material, grows on bits of leaves that the ants provide it. Also visible here to the left of the queen are the ants' larvae, which live in the garden consuming the fungus. filename: versicolor32
alexwild > Acromyrmex versicolor - Desert Leafcutter Ant - Arizona, USA. A young queen leafcutter ant tends to her larvae in the incipient fungus garden. filename: versicolor33
alexwild > Acromyrmex versicolor - Desert Leafcutter Ant - Arizona, USA. A young queen leafcutter ant tends to her larvae in the incipient fungus garden. filename: versicolor31
alexwild > The most northerly Acromyrmex species is the desert leafcutter A. versicolor. Here workers guard their nest entrance. California, USA.
alexwild > A mating swarm of the desert leafcutter Acromyrmex versicolor. Tucson, Arizona, USA.
alexwild > A mating swarm of the desert leafcutter Acromyrmex versicolor. The swarm is composed largely of males, as the arriving females are set upon almost immediately and fall to the ground in a ball of ants. Tucson, Arizona, USA.
alexwild > A mating swarm of the desert leafcutter Acromyrmex versicolor. Tucson, Arizona, USA.
alexwild > A single young queen leafcutter- hidden under piles of males- attracts dozens of hopeful mates in a frenzied ball of copulating ants. Acromyrmex versicolor. Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Acromyrmex versicolor - Desert Leafcutter.

filename: versicolor34
alexwild > Acromyrmex versicolor - Desert Leafcutter. filename: versicolor34
Acromyrmex versicolor - Desert Leafcutter.

filename: versicolor34
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