Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) workers carrying section of dismembered prey back to nest, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Solvin Zankl / Army ant (Eciton burchellii) head of a soldier with sickle-shaped mandibles. The soldier caste defends the others. Specimen photographed using digital focus stacking
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Solvin Zankl / Army ant (Eciton burchellii) soldier head. Specimen photographed using digital focus stacking
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Konrad Wothe / Army Ants, submajor and worker (Eciton burchellii) La Selva rainforest, Costa Rica
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Konrad Wothe / Army Ant (Eciton sp) portrait, La Selva, Costa Rica
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Konrad Wothe / Army Ant (Eciton sp) major caste, carrying insect pupa, La Selva, Costa Rica
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Konrad Wothe / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) submajor caste, carrying cricket, La Selva, Costa Rica
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Konrad Wothe / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) submajor caste, carrying cricket, La Selva, Costa Rica
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) emigration of the 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 sp) bivouac (temporary nest) made of hundreds of thousands of ant bodies, Soberania National Park, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) emigration of the 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 sp) swarm raid, Soberania National Park, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton sp) emigration 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 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 sp) raiding a nest of killer bees on Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) raiding a nest of killer bees, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) raiding a nest of killer bees, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) raiding a nest of killer bees, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Eciton burchellii) soldier is cornered by workers of rival Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) species
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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 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 (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 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 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 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 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 burchellii) soldier is cornered by smaller worker of rival Army Ant (Eciton hamatum) species, 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 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 sp) young Queen showing swollen abdomen, 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 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
