alexwild > Turneria bidentata worker carrying a larva to safety after the photographer disturbed her nest.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
alexwild > Arboreal Tetraponera nest in hollow spaces of twigs and branches.  The ants' slender bodies allow them to maneuver in narrow spaces. (Tetraponera laeviceps).

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
alexwild > Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) sp.  This weaver ant colony has made a nest by folding a leaf and sealing the open ends with silk and debris.

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
alexwild > Winter leaf drop reveals a number of old Oecophylla smaragdina green tree ant nests.  The ants have moved on, but the signs of their presence remain.  Tree ants are polydomous, so the nests likely all belonged to a single colony.

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
alexwild > Major and minor workers of Cephalotes rohweri, the Arizona turtle ant. 

Tucson, Arizona, USA
alexwild > Cephalotes rohweri, the Arizona turtle ant.

Tucson, Arizona, USA
alexwild > Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) sp.  This weaver ant colony has made a nest by folding a leaf and sealing the open ends with silk and debris.

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
alexwild > Winter leaf drop reveals a number of old Oecophylla smaragdina green tree ant nests.  The ants have moved on, but the signs of their presence remain.  Tree ants are polydomous, so the nests likely all belonged to a single colony.

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
alexwild > Oecophylla smaragdina, the green tree ant of northern Australia, is a type of weaver ant.  These ants construct nests by tying living tree leaves together using silk produced by their larvae.  This is a small nest, only one of several occupied by this colony, formed by folding a leaf back on itself. 

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
Turneria bidentata worker carrying a larva to safety after the photographer disturbed her nest.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
alexwild > Turneria bidentata worker carrying a larva to safety after the photographer disturbed her nest.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
Turneria bidentata worker carrying a larva to safety after the photographer disturbed her nest.

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
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