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 > After mating, a young leafcutter ant queen sheds her wings.  Acromyrmex versicolor.

Tucson, Arizona, USA
alexwild > Trachymyrmex septentrionalis in the fungus garden.

Laboratory colony at the University of Texas
alexwild > Inside the fungus garden of the asexual ant Mycocepurus smithii.

Panama
alexwild > Inside the fungus garden of the asexual ant Mycocepurus smithii.

Panama
alexwild > Mycocepurus smithii, on a fungal thread at the periphery of the fungus garden.  The ants are true agriculturalists, cultivating an edible fungus on a substrate of assorted debris.

Panama
alexwild > Inside the fungus garden of the asexual ant Mycocepurus smithii.

Panama
alexwild > Mycocepurus smithii

Panama
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
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 > 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
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
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