Piotr Naskrecki / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) worker on leaf protecting larger workers carrying leaf from parasitoid flies, Costa Rica
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) workers carrying leaves to nest, French Guiana
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) workers carrying leaves to nest, French Guiana
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) workers carrying leaves to nest, French Guiana
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) workers carrying leaves back to nest, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) worker carries leaf with its jaws full, workers carrying leaves must rely on a special cast of smaller ants riding on the leaves to defend against Phorid fly (Phoridae...
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) workers carrying leaves to nest, French Guiana
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Hiroya Minakuchi / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) group carrying leaves to nest, Costa Rica
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Piotr Naskrecki / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) queen, Barbilla National Park, Costa Rica
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Piotr Naskrecki / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) worker, Barbilla National Park, Costa Rica
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Piotr Naskrecki / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) worker, Barbilla National Park, Costa Rica
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Piotr Naskrecki / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) worker, Barbilla National Park, Costa Rica
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Piotr Naskrecki / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) worker, Barbilla National Park, Costa Rica
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ZSSD / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) carrying leaf, native to Central America
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Murray Cooper / Leafcutter Ants (Atta cephalotes) carrying leaves, Amazon, Ecuador
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Murray Cooper / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) group carrying leaves, Amazon, Ecuador
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) ants taking leaves to nest, French Guiana
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Konrad Wothe / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) ant carrying freshly cut leaf, Costa Rica
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Konrad Wothe / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) ant cutting leaf, Costa Rica
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Konrad Wothe / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) ants carrying leaves, Costa Rica
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Konrad Wothe / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) ants carrying leaves, Costa Rica
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) worker carries leaf with its jaws full, workers carrying leaves must rely on a special cast of smaller ants riding on the leaves to defend against Phorid fly attack, F...
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) soldiers attack photographer's foot, soldiers specialize in vertebrate defense, rarely leaving the nest unless it is disturbed, French Guiana
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) soldiers attack photographer's foot, soldiers specialize in vertebrate defense, rarely leaving the nest unless it is disturbed, French Guiana
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Mark Moffett / Phorid fly attacks unsuspecting Leafcutter Ants (Atta cephalotes) working with heads buried in flower, French Guiana
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Mark Moffett / Phorid fly attacks unsuspecting Leafcutter Ants (Atta cephalotes) working with heads buried in flower, French Guiana
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Mark Moffett / Phorid fly attacks leaf carrying Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) the fly will lay an egg from which a parasitizing maggot will hatch, Belize
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) workers carrying leaves to nest, French Guiana
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Piotr Naskrecki / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) queen, Barbilla National Park, Costa Rica
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) colony and Mark Moffet, Kaw Mountains, French Guiana
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) workers carrying leaves along trunk trail back to the nest, French Guiana
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) worker returns from battle carrying the corpse of a nest-mate, in this case a soldier much larger than herself, Belize
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Mark Moffett / Phorid fly laying egg on back of unsuspecting Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) worker's head As the fly maggot grows it will consume the ant, French Guiana
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Mark Moffett / Phorid fly laying egg on back of unsuspecting Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) worker's head As the fly maggot grows it will consume the ant, French Guiana
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) if workers sense a Phorid fly attack has occurred, they gather around the affected ant and groom it vigorously to remove egg, Belize
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Mark Moffett / Phorid fly lays egg on head of Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) workers, as the egg hatches the maggot will consume the ant, Belize
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) workers carrying leaves, along trunk trail, back to nest, French Guiana
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) workers carrying leaves to nest, French Guiana
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ZSSD / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) carrying leaf, native to South America
