Alex WildIn which our intrepid photographer narrowly escaped being murdered by driver ants in Kibale Forest, Uganda.
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.
A gallery of army ants:
#Ants #Insects #ArmyAnts #Photography
https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Making-a-Living/Army-Ants
A gallery of Eciton, the most famous of the neotropical army ants.
https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Taxonomic-List-of-Ant-Genera/Eciton
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.
Army Ants: a gallery from around the world.
#Ants #ArmyAnts #Dorylinae #Insects
https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Making-a-Living/Army-Ants/
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.
A gallery of army ants.
https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Making-a-Living/Army-Ants/
Peer Community Journal@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