Mark Moffett / Ant (Crematogaster sp) drinking nectar from plant, Manu, Peru

Mark Moffett / Ant (Crematogaster sp) drinking nectar from plant, Manu, Peru

Mark Moffett / Ponerine Ant (Ectatomma sp) protecting flower of Spiral Flag (Costus sp) ginger, Manu, Peru

Mark Moffett / Ponerine Ant (Ectatomma tuberculatum) protect Passion Flower (Passiflora sp) in return for sweet sap that oozes from the green spots along petals of flower, Peru

Mark Moffett / Ant (Azteca sp) queen, in her host (Cecropia sp) tree, surrounded by workers and larvae in native colony, Manu, Peru

Mark Moffett / Ant (Azteca sp) queen, in her host (Cecropia sp) tree, starting her colony, Manu, Peru

Mark Moffett / Ant (Azteca sp) queen, in her host (Cecropia sp) tree, starting her colony, Manu, Peru

Mark Moffett / Ant (Azteca sp) queen, in her host (Cecropia sp) tree with workers starting her colony, Manu, Peru

Mark Moffett / Ant (Azteca sp) queen, in her host (Cecropia sp) tree with her first workers starting colony, Manu, Peru

Mark Moffett / Ant (Azteca sp) queen starting her colony within Cordia (Cordia nodosa) host tree, Peru

Mark Moffett / Ant (Pheidole sp) group lives in pockets on leaves of Melastoma (Maieta sp) shrubs, one chamber serves as a nursery and one chamber for refuse which acts as plant fertilizer, Manu, Peru

Mark Moffett / Tiny Myrmelachista ants live in bark of trees in Devils Gardens and kill all other plants within hundreds of square feet, Manu, Peru

Mark Moffett / Ant (Myrmelachista schumanni) cleared undergrowth creating a spirit garden in which Jorge, a Matsigenka Indian, stands, Manu National Park, Peru

Mark Moffett / Ant (Azteca sp) patrol leaves to protect their host tree (Cecropia sp), Manu, Peru

Mark Moffett / Ant (Azteca sp) with food item plucked from its host tree (Cecropia sp), Manu, Peru

Mark Moffett / Ant (Formicidae) queen unable to survive in the Borage (Boraginaceae) tree due to fungus, Peru

Mark Moffett / Ant (Formicidae) queen unable to survive in the Borage (Boraginaceae) tree due to fungus, Peru

Mark Moffett / Meadow Froghopper (Philaenus spumarius) young queen entering hole she's chiseled inside Cecropia tree, carrying food grown by the tree, Peru

Mark Moffett / Ant (Pachycondyla sp) queen collecting white food bodies grown for her on host tree (Cecropia sp), Manu, Peru

Mark Moffett / Ant (Pachycondyla goeldii) queen, chisels entrance into young Cecropia (Cecropia sp) tree to find chambers in which to live and start her colony, Peru

Mark Moffett / Ponerine Ant (Ectatomma tuberculatum) protect Passion Flower (Passiflora sp) in return for sweet sap that oozes from the green spots along petals of flower, Peru

Mark Moffett / Photographer, Mark Moffett on assignment, National Geographic May 1999, shown sitting near Triplaris Ant tree, Peru

Mark Moffett / Photographer, Mark Moffett on assignment, National Geographic May 1999, shown sitting near Triplaris ant tree, Peru

Mark Moffett / Ponerine Ant (Ectatomma tuberculatum) protect Passion Flower (Passiflora sp) in return for sweet sap that oozes from the green spots along petals of flower, Peru

Mark Moffett / Cecropia (Cecropia sp) food bodies for its Ant (Azteca sp) residents, Manu, Peru

Mark Moffett / Doug Yu, an ecologist, cuts Wasps and Killer Bees from Mark Moffett's hair, Devil's Garden, Manu, Peru