alexwild > Onthophagus taurus dung beetles, showing size and horn variation among males.

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alexwild > Major and minor workers of Cephalotes rohweri, the Arizona turtle ant. 

Tucson, Arizona, USA
alexwild > Pheidole floridana

Brackenridge Field Lab, Austin, Texas
alexwild > Protected inside a translucent silken tent, Oecophylla longinoda weaver ants gather honeydew from mealybugs. The ants weave the tent using silk produced by their larvae.

St. Lucia, KZN, South Africa
alexwild > Protected inside a translucent silken tent, Oecophylla longinoda weaver ants gather honeydew from mealybugs. The ants weave the tent using silk produced by their larvae.

St. Lucia, KZN, South Africa
alexwild > Major and minor workers of Cephalotes rohweri, the Arizona turtle ant. 

Tucson, Arizona, USA
alexwild > Socially parasitic ants are usually discernable by their relatively small queens, as ants that start new colonies by infiltrating existing nests do not need large body reserves.  The queen of Aphaenogaster tennesseensis- a temporary nest-founding parasite of several other woodland Aphaenogaster- is scarcely larger than her own workers.

Urbana, Illinois, USA
alexwild > Pheidole rosae.  The massive head of this ant holds muscles to power the plier-like mandibles.

Entre Rios, Argentina
alexwild > Pheidole dentigula

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Onthophagus taurus dung beetles, showing size and horn variation among males.

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alexwild > Onthophagus taurus dung beetles, showing size and horn variation among males.

filename: taurus1
Onthophagus taurus dung beetles, showing size and horn variation among males.

filename: taurus1
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