Mark Moffett / Green Tree Ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) holding silk-producing larva in its jaws and weaving the larva's silk to bind leaves for the colony's treetop nest, Daintree, Queensland, Australia

Mark Moffett / Green Tree Ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) holding silk-producing larva in its jaws and weaving the larva's silk to bind leaves for the colony's treetop nest, Daintree, Queensland, Australia

Juergen Freund / Blocks of soft coquina limestone formed from shells of Bivalve Cardiid Cockle {Fragrum erugatum} Rainwater repeatedly dissolves small quantities of calcium carbonate of which the shells are composed....

Piotr Naskrecki / Weaver Ant (Oecophylla longinoda) worker gently squeezing larvae for silk glue used to bind leaves into a nest, Guinea, West Africa

PREMAPHOTOS / Green tree ant (Oecophylla smargdina) using larva as shuttle with silk thread to bind together leaf edges for nest, India

PREMAPHOTOS / Green tree ant using larva as shuttle (Oecophylla smaragdina) with silk thread to bind together leaf edges for building nest, India

PREMAPHOTOS / Green tree ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) using larva as shuttle with silk thread to bind together leaf edges for building nest, India

Mark Moffett / Weaver Ant (Oecophylla longinoda) group using mandibles and silk to bind leaves together, Malaysia

Nigel Cattlin / Carnation tortrix (Cacoecimorpha pronubana) caterpillar feeding and binding the leaves of red valerian (Centranthus ruber) Berkshire, England, UK. September

Nigel Cattlin / Carnation tortrix (Cacoecimorpha pronubana) caterpillar feeding and binding the leaves of red valerian (Centranthus ruber) Berkshire, England, UK. September