alexwild > Acromyrmex versicolor, the desert leafcutter.

Laboratory colony at Arizona State University
alexwild > Acromyrmex versicolor desert leafcutter ant carrying a fragment of a mesquite seed pod.

Green Valley, Arizona, USA
alexwild > The nest entrances of the desert leafcutter ant Acromyrmex versicolor are often nearly completely round, appearing like a miniature volcano.

Green Valley, Arizona, USA
alexwild > Acromyrmex versicolor, the desert leafcutter.

Laboratory colony at Arizona State University
alexwild > Trachymyrmex pomonae

Portal, Arizona, USA
alexwild > Trachymyrmex desertorum workers in the fungus garden.

Tucson, Arizona, USA
alexwild > Cyphomyrmex wheeleri is the most temperate of the Cyphomyrmex species, occurring as far north as San Francisco, California.  Here worker ants tend to their fungus garden.

Austin, Texas, USA
alexwild > Acromyrmex versicolor desert leafcutter ant nest in an urban setting.

Green Valley, Arizona, USA
alexwild > After mating, a young leafcutter ant queen sheds her wings.  Acromyrmex versicolor.

Tucson, Arizona, USA
Acromyrmex versicolor, the desert leafcutter.

Laboratory colony at Arizona State University
alexwild > Acromyrmex versicolor, the desert leafcutter.

Laboratory colony at Arizona State University
Acromyrmex versicolor, the desert leafcutter.

Laboratory colony at Arizona State University
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