In which our intrepid photographer narrowly escaped being murdered by driver ants in Kibale Forest, Uganda.

#Ants #Insects #Dorylus #ArmyAnts

At the Bugshot photography workshop in Arizona, we happened across a column of Neivamyrmex nigrescens army ants that had popped above ground to grab termites after their mating flights. A real feast, hauled away to feed hungry ant larvae. #Neivamyrmex #ArmyAnts #ants #insects

When I have my military parade, it’s gonna be lit. It’s gonna be army ants for days. The biggest soldier ants you’ve ever seen.

#ants #insects #Eciton #armyants

Army Ants and Other Nomads - Alex Wild

Several lineages of ants in the warmer regions of the world have evolved a lifestyle of nomadic predation.

A gallery of Eciton, the most famous of the neotropical army ants.

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Taxonomic-List-of-Ant-Genera/Eciton

#Eciton #Insects #ArmyAnts

Eciton - Alex Wild

is a large, conspicuous army ant endemic to the neotropics. Most species have a soldier caste with mandibles modified into ice-tong shaped hooks for defense against vertebrates. One rain forest species, E. burchellii, is known for its expansive epigaeic swarm raids.

In an Ecuadorian cloud forest, army ants (Eciton mexicanum) subdue a Neoponera huntress they have caught. Most army ants are rather specialized predators of other ants.

#ArmyAnts #Ants #Insects #Eciton

Army Ants and Other Nomads - Alex Wild

Several lineages of ants in the warmer regions of the world have evolved a lifestyle of nomadic predation.

In spite of their fierce reputation, army ants mostly prey on other social insects. Here, Eciton mexicanum workers pin down a Neoponera huntress ant in an Ecuadorian cloud forest.

#Ants #Eciton #ArmyAnts #Ecuador #Insects

Army Ants and Other Nomads - Alex Wild

Several lineages of ants in the warmer regions of the world have evolved a lifestyle of nomadic predation.

@PeerCommunityIn Now published in Peer Community Journal, #Infections section: African #armyants at the forefront of #virome surveillance in a remote #tropicalforest https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.249
African army ants at the forefront of virome surveillance in a remote tropical forest