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alexwild > Paratrechina bourbonica is a tramp species that has spread with commerce to warmer regions around the world.

West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
alexwild > Pseudomyrmex gracilis is a large, active, and alert ant found from the southern United States to northern Argentina.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Pseudomyrmex gracilis is a large, active, and alert ant found from the southern United States to northern Argentina.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Breaking open a hollow twig in the Florida scrub reveals a nest of the twig ant Pseudomyrmex gracilis.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Pseudomyrmex ejectus nests in hollow twigs.  Here a worker poses by the nest entrance.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Cracking open a twig reveals a small nest of Pseudomyrmex ejectus.  The elongate shape of these gracile insects allows them to maneuver in tight spaces.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Dorymyrmex reginicula (at left), a socially parasitic species, is harassed by a worker of its host Dorymyrmex elegans.  Workers of the two species coexist in a single nest for a period after the parasite queen has assumed reproduction and before the last remaining host workers die off.  The transition period is not entirely smooth, as evidenced by this aggressive interaction.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Dorymyrmex reginicula (at left), a socially parasitic species, is harassed by a worker of its host Dorymyrmex elegans.  Workers of the two species coexist in a single nest for a period after the parasite queen has assumed reproduction and before the last remaining host workers die off.  The transition period is not entirely smooth, as evidenced by this aggressive interaction.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
alexwild > Dorymyrmex reginicula (at left), a socially parasitic species, is harassed by a worker of its host Dorymyrmex elegans.  Workers of the two species coexist in a single nest for a period after the parasite queen has assumed reproduction and before the last remaining host workers die off.  The transition period is not entirely smooth, as evidenced by this aggressive interaction.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Paratrechina bourbonica is a tramp species that has spread with commerce to warmer regions around the world.

West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
alexwild > Paratrechina bourbonica is a tramp species that has spread with commerce to warmer regions around the world.

West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Paratrechina bourbonica is a tramp species that has spread with commerce to warmer regions around the world.

West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
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