alexwild > Pseudomyrmex gracilis dealate queen.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Solenopsis pergandei queen and workers.  

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Solenopsis pergandei queen and workers.  The workers spend their entire lives underground and are nearly blind, but the queen's large eyes are used early in her life when she disperses from her natal nest to start a new colony.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Crematogaster lineolata queen with her retinue of workers.

Vermillion River Observatory, Illinois, USA
alexwild > Crematogaster lineolata queen with her retinue of workers.

Vermillion River Observatory, Illinois, USA
alexwild > Solenopsis invicta, young alate queen in the nest.

Austin, Texas, USA
alexwild > A young Stigmacros queen pauses to groom herself while looking for a spot to found a new colony.

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia
alexwild > Ant colonies usually start small.  Here a young bull ant queen (Myrmecia piliventris) tends to a larva in her incipient nest.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
alexwild > Monomorium sydneyense queen and workers in the brood nest.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Pseudomyrmex gracilis dealate queen.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Pseudomyrmex gracilis dealate queen.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Pseudomyrmex gracilis dealate queen.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
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