Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carrying section of dismembered prey back to nest, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) colony forming a bridge by climbing over each other, some are carrying food back to nest, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / A millipede which lives as a guest in the colonies of a certain species of army ant. These milipedes are chemically camouflaged as army ants and migrate with the ants from place to place, Barro Colora...
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton sp) colony emigration, this species relocates every night and workers transport the larvae and food. Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) migration of a colony, this species relocates every night and workers transport the larvae and food, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) bridge made by ants during a raid, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) workers linking to one another toe to toe, building a new bivouc for the day, hundreds of thousands of ants will eventaully join in, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers linking to one another toe to toe, building a new bivouc for the day, hundreds of thousands of ants will eventaully join in, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers linking to one another toe to toe, building a new bivouc for the day, hundreds of thousands of ants will eventaully join in, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carry prey back to feed colony, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carry large prey back to feed colony, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carry section of dismembered prey back to feed colony, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carry prey back to feed colony, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carry prey back to feed colony, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carry prey back to feed colony, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carry prey back to feed colony, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carry food back to colony, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carry food back to colony, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carry prey back to feed colony, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carry prey back to feed colony, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) carrying leaf, about to be landed on by tiny parasitic fly which will attempt to lay an egg on the submajor, the egg will then hatch into a larva which will consume the an...
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) submajor worker carrying section of dismembered centipede back to nest as media worker behind her lifts dragging end, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carrying pupae while migrating, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) major worker. Also called a soldier, its primary job is defending the colony, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers of different sizes link toe to toe forming a massive nest or bivouac, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carrying pupae while migrating, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) soldier's mandibles are curved like fishooks which soldiers cannot extract once they've bitten a victim, thereby dooming themselves, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carry dead prey back to feed colony, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers link toe to toe forming a massive nest or bivouac, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) major and minor workers protecting colony food cache, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Labidus praedator) workers swarming over grasshopper prey, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carrying food back to nest, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) worker carrying food back to nest, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) small minor workers grooming sub-major ant, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton i) two soldiers or major workers patrolling edge of trail, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) at left, fighting rival species (Ectatomma sp) over dead silverfish, just before more E. i arrived to chase Ectatomma away, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) major and minor workers carry dead prey back to feed colony, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton sp) queen, who lives up to several years, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) major workers carrying prey back to feed colony, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers form a bridge along the trail for colony members to cross, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton i) soldier fighting two smaller workers of rival army ant (Eciton hamatum) species. The two colonies sparred for an hour in a chance meeting and retreated without fatalities, Barro Co...
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii), large soldier is cornered by workers of rival army ant (Eciton hamatum) species. The two colonies sparred for an hour in a chance meeting and retreated without fatalities...
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers form a step along the trail for larger worker carrying larva, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carry dead prey back to feed colony, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) workers of different sizes link toe to toe forming a massive nest or bivouac, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Semi-vegetarian army ant (Labidus coecus) swarm catches, quickly kills and dismembers a fruit fly that accidentally landed in their midst, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton sp) workers form a bridge along the trail for colony members climb from one leaf to another, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers form a bridge along the trail for colony members to cross, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers form a bridge along the trail for colony members to cross, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers form a bridge along the trail for colony members to cross, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers form a bridge along the trail for colony members to cross, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) worker fighting with another Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) species, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers of different sizes carry food back to colony, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers of different sizes carry food back to colony, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton i) submajor and smaller workers carry food back to colony, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) minor workers, working together to dismember prey, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) minor workers of swarm over and kill scorpion, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton sp) workers of different sizes carrying pupa while migrating, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carrying pupa while migrating, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carrying pupa while migrating, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton sp) workers of different sizes carrying pupa while migrating, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) colony forms a bridge by clinging together, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) swarm attacking and killing scorpion, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) colony forms a bridge by clinging together, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) workers with huge mandibles guarding nest entrance, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) swarm, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) a small ant bridge at the edge of a temporary nest, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) colony forming a bridge by climbing over each other, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) temporary nest called a bivouac, workers bringing in wasp larvae as food, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) raiding a paper wasp nest and pulling the larvae out of their cells, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) teamwork in food transportation, a large wasp pupae is carried by several workers, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) raid, swarming the forest floor up to 50 feet wide, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) food cache of army ants, where food is stored during a raid to be more efficient in transporting food back to nest, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton sp) detail of a temporary nest during a colony split, visible are the large pupal cases of the male Ants, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton sp) colony forming a bridge by climbing over each other, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) portrait of a soldier with large mandibles, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) attack caterpillar during a raid, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) food cache where food is stored during a raid to be more efficient in transporting food back to nest, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Norbert Wu / Army Ant (Eciton sp) group use their bodies to build a bridge for other ants to walk across, rainforest, Panama
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Norbert Wu / Army Ant (Eciton sp) group sweep forest floor of prey, form bivouacs at night, Panama Rainforest
