Bence Mate / Leaf cutter ant (Atta sp) female worker carrying leaf to nest, with a smaller 'minor' ant riding. The minor's job is to protect her sister from parasitic flies. Costa Rica, December. Highly Commended,...
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Morley Read / Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp) carrying leaves and pieces of yellow flowers along a branch, Amazon rainforest, Orellana Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)
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Morley Read / Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp) carrying leaves and pieces of yellow flowers along a branch, Amazon rainforest, Orellana Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)
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Morley Read / Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp) carrying leaves and pieces of yellow flowers along a branch, Amazon rainforest, Orellana Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)
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Morley Read / Column of Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp) carrying leaves over the rainforest floor to their nest, Amazon rainforest, Orellana Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)
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Paul Bertner / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) group harvesting leaf, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
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James Dunbar / Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp.) communicating. Guadeloupe National Park, Guadeloupe, Leeward Islands.
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Bence Mate / Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp) carrying piece of leaf, Costa Rica.
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Bence Mate / Leaf cutter ant (Atta sp) carrying colourful pieces of plant material, Santa Rita, Costa Rica.
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Bence Mate / Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp) carrying pieces of fern, reflected in water, Costa Rica.
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Bence Mate / Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp) carrying plant matter, Costa Rica.
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Bence Mate / Leafcutter ants (Atta sp) colony harvesting pieces of a banana leaf, Costa Rica.
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Bence Mate / Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp) carrying colourful plant matter, reflected in water, Laguna del Lagarto, Santa Rita, Costa Rica
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Bence Mate / Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp) silhouetted carrying plant matter, Laguna del Lagarto, Santa Rita, Costa Rica
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Bence Mate / Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp) carrying colourful plant matter, reflected in water, Laguna del Lagarto, Santa Rita, Costa Rica
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Bence Mate / Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp) carrying plant matter, Costa Rica.
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Bence Mate / Leaf cutter ant (Atta sp) carrying pink flower segment, Santa Rita, Costa Rica.
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Bence Mate / Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp) carrying colourful plant matter, reflected in water, Costa Rica.
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Bence Mate / Leafcutter ants (Atta sp) colony harvesting a banana leaf, Costa Rica. 3rd place in the Insects and Spiders category of the Terre Sauvage Nature Images Awards competitions 2015.
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Konrad Wothe / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) pair carrying leaves, Panguana Nature Reserve, Peru
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Bence Mate / Leaf cutter ants (Atta cephalotes) carrying sections of leaves, to be used for cultivating nutritious fungi, Santa Rita, Costa Rica
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Ingo Arndt / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) carrying section of leaf to be used for cultivating nutritious fungi, Costa Rica
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Rolf Nussbaumer / Texas leafcutter ant (Atta texana) workers carrying leaves during rain, New Braunfels, Central Texas, USA. Highly honoured, Small world Spectacular Category, Natures Best competition 2012.
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Piotr Naskrecki / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) worker on leaf protecting larger workers carrying leaf from parasitoid flies, Costa Rica
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Bence Mate / Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp) female worker ants carry pieces of fern leaves to nest, reflected in water, Costa Rica, December. Winner, Eric Hosking award, 2011 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competit...
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Bence Mate / Leafcutter ants (Atta sp) colony harvesting a banana leaf, Costa Rica. OVERALL WINNER: Wildlife Photoghrapher of the Year 2010 from Eric Hosking Award portfolio image 2/6
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Mark Bowler / Line of Leaf-cutter ants (Atta sp) carrying leaves, digital composite
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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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Michael & Patricia Fogden / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) group workers carrying leaf segments, note minim riding on leaf as protection against parasitic flies, rainforest, 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 back to nest, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Solvin Zankl / Leafcutter ant {Atta sp} carrying leaf fragment to nest. Ants are champion weightlifters, capable of lifting 50 times their body weight (the equivalent of a human heaving 50 people). They would win a...
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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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Konrad Wothe / Leafcutter Ant (Attini sp) carrying leaf piece back to nest with smaller ant riding on leaf, small ant defends larger worker from parasitic flies, Honduras
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Acromyrmex octospinosus) worker cutting Papaya leaf, Honduras
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Acromyrmex octospinosus) worker cutting Papaya leaf, Guadaloupe
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Acromyrmex octospinosus) worker cutting papaya leaf, Guadeloupe, Caribbean
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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 sp) group group carrying leaves back to nest, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) group carrying leaves back to nest, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Thomas Marent / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) carrying fruit, Tatama National Park, Colombia
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Piotr Naskrecki / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) group carrying leaves, Carara National Park, Costa Rica
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Agustin Esmoris / Leafcutter Ant (Acromyrmex striatus) carrying leaf, Pedro Luro, Argentina
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Adrian Davies / Leaf eaten by leaf cutter ants (Atta sp) Trinidad.
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Paul Bertner / Leafcutter Ant (Atta colombiana) harvesting plant, Ecuador
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Nick Hawkins / Leaf-cutter ants (Atta sp) photographed on white background, Costa Rica, November.
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David Tipling / Leaf-cutter ants (Atta sp) moving across forest floor, Darien National Park UNESCO World Heritage Site, Panama.
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James Dunbar / Leaf Cutter ant (Atta sp.) killing another ant. Guadeloupe National Park, Guadeloupe, Leeward Islands.
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James Dunbar / Leaf Cutter ant (Atta sp.) carrying leaf. Guadeloupe National Park, Guadeloupe, Leeward Islands.
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James Dunbar / Leaf cutter ant (Atta sp.) Guadeloupe National Park, Guadeloupe, Leeward Islands.
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James Dunbar / Leaf cutter ant (Atta sp.) Guadeloupe National Park, Guadeloupe, Leeward Islands.
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James Dunbar / Leaf cutter ant (Atta sp.) fighting another ant, Guadeloupe National Park, Guadeloupe, Leeward Islands.
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James Dunbar / Leaf cutter ant (Atta sp.) Guadeloupe National Park, Guadeloupe, Leeward Islands.
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Nick Hawkins / Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp.) Tortuguero National Park, Costa Rica.
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Cyril Ruoso / Leaf cutter ant (Atta sp) carrying leaves, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia.
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Cyril Ruoso / Leaf cutter ant (Atta sp) carrying leaves, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia.
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James Dunbar / Leaf Cutter ant (Atta sp.) Trophallaxis. Parc National du Guadeloupe. Jan 2016
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Bence Mate / Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp) carrying plant matter, Costa Rica.
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Konrad Wothe / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) group carrying leaves, Panguana Nature Reserve, Peru
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Konrad Wothe / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) carrying leaf, Pucallpa, Peru
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Konrad Wothe / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) carrying leaf, Pucallpa, Peru
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Konrad Wothe / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) group carrying leaves, Panguana Nature Reserve, Peru
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Konrad Wothe / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) column carrying flowers on trail, Panguana Nature Reserve, Peru
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Konrad Wothe / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) column carrying pink flowers on trail, Panguana Nature Reserve, Peru
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Konrad Wothe / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) carrying flower, Panguana Nature Reserve, Peru
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Konrad Wothe / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) group cutting leaf, Tobago, West Indies, Caribbean
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MYN / JP Lawrence / Unidentified Leaf Cutter Ant alate (Atta sp.) Isla Colon, Panama. Meetyourneighbours.net project
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MYN / Joao P. Burini / Male leafcutter (Atta sp.) Sorocaba, Sao Paolo, Brazil. Meetyourneighbours.net project
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta laevigata) worker cutting Papaya leaf
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Cyril Ruoso / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) group carrying leaf, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
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Bence Mate / Leaf cutter ants (Atta cephalotes) carrying sections of leaves, to be used for cultivating nutritious fungi, Santa Rita, Costa Rica
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Bence Mate / Leaf cutter ants (Atta cephalotes) carrying sections of leaves, to be used for cultivating nutritious fungi, Santa Rita, Costa Rica
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Ingo Arndt / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) group carrying sections of leaves, to be used for cultivating nutritious fungi, Costa Rica
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Ingo Arndt / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) pair carrying sections of leaves, to be used for cultivating nutritious fungi, Costa Rica
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Martin Dohrn / Leaf-cutter ant (Atta sp) soldier close up, Costa Rica
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Martin Dohrn / Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp) tending fungus garden with leaves as growth medium, Costa Rica
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Hiroya Minakuchi / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) group carrying leaves to nest, Costa Rica
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Steve Gettle / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) carrying leaf with guard protecting worker, Costa Rica
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Steve Gettle / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) carrying leaf, Costa Rica
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Steve Gettle / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) carrying leaf, Costa Rica
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Steve Gettle / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) carrying leaf, Costa Rica
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Steve Gettle / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) pair carrying leaves, Costa Rica
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Steve Gettle / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) group carrying leaves, Costa Rica
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Steve Gettle / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) carrying leaf, Costa Rica
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Steve Gettle / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) carrying leaf, 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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Christian Ziegler / Leafcutter Ant (Atta columbica) workers cutting little pieces out of leaves, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Piotr Naskrecki / Leafcutter Ant (Acromyrmex sp) carrying worker covered with spores of antibiotic bacteria that help the ants control the growth of parasitic fungi within their fungal gardens, Guyana
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ZSSD / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) carrying leaf, native to Central America
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Luciano Candisani / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) winged female in atlantic rainforest, Brazil
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Luciano Candisani / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) winged female in atlantic rainforest, Brazil
