Paul D Stewart / Male Large Blue Butterfly (Maculinea eutryphon / arion) collected in 1865. It is here surrounded by other extant UK blue butterfly species. The large Blue was first recorded as a British species in 17...

Solvin Zankl / Fire Ant (Solenopsis geminata) head of a major worker with mandibles used for opening seeds. Specimen photographed using digital focus stacking

Solvin Zankl / Red Ant (Myrmica rubra) close-up portrait, Specimen photographed using digital focus stacking

Chris Shields / Illustration of Red ant (Myrmica rubra), Formicidae. attacking ant on stem.

Edwin Giesbers / Fire ant (Solenopsis sp) worker, with green plant material behind

Ingo Arndt / Red Wood Ant (Formica rufa) mass sunbathing at nest, Hessen, Germany

Michael Durham / Red Imported Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta), also known as RIFA, worker portrait, highly invasive introduced species, Texas

Kim Taylor / Red ant {Myrmica rubra} worker collecting honeydew from Nettle aphids {Microlophium carnosum} Surrey, England.

Konrad Wothe / Red Wood Ant (Formica rufa) colony reacting in defensive behavior by spraying formic acid from a gland in rear of their abdomens, Sweden

Ingo Arndt / Red wood ants (Formica rufa) carrying construction material to anthill (fir needles), Germany.

Ingo Arndt / Red wood ants (Formica rufa) basking on wood in early spring, close to anthill, Germany, March.

Ingo Arndt / Red wood ants (Formica rufa) basking on wood in early spring, close to anthill, Germany, March.