alexwild > Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) sp.  This weaver ant colony has made a nest by folding a leaf and sealing the open ends with silk and debris.

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
alexwild > Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) sp.  This weaver ant colony has made a nest by folding a leaf and sealing the open ends with silk and debris.

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
alexwild > The hollow stem of a Cecropia ant-plant is divided into chambers to house fierce Azteca alfari ants. Inside, the ants raise their brood and tend to mealybugs. 

Gamboa, Panama
alexwild > The swollen thorns of this Panamanian Acacia tree house a colony of fierce Pseudomyrmex spinicola ants.  

Chiriqui, Panama
alexwild > Food bodies sprout from the base of a Cecropia leaf. These feed the plant's protective Azteca ants. 

Gamboa, Panama
alexwild > The hollow stem of a Cecropia ant-plant is divided into chambers to house fierce Azteca alfari ants. Inside, the ants raise their brood and tend to mealybugs. 

Gamboa, Panama
alexwild > Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) sp.  This weaver ant colony has made a nest by folding a leaf and sealing the open ends with silk and debris.

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
alexwild > Azteca velox worker tending to a Theope caterpillar.

Isla Contadora, Panama
alexwild > Azteca velox workers tending to a Theope caterpillar.

Isla Contadora, Panama
Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) sp. This weaver ant colony has made a nest by folding a leaf and sealing the open ends with silk and debris.

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
alexwild > Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) sp.  This weaver ant colony has made a nest by folding a leaf and sealing the open ends with silk and debris.

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) sp. This weaver ant colony has made a nest by folding a leaf and sealing the open ends with silk and debris.

Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
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