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 / Ant (Formicidae) cutting leaf, Braulio Carrillo National Park, Costa Rica
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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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Piotr Naskrecki / Ant (Crematogaster sp) group cutting leaf, this behavior had previsouly only been observed in new world ants, Guinea
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Piotr Naskrecki / Ant (Crematogaster sp) cutting leaf, this behavior had previsouly only been observed in new world ants, Guinea
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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
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Luciano Candisani / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp), Cerrado ecosystem, Emas National Park, Brazil
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Murray Cooper / Leafcutter Ants (Atta cephalotes) carrying leaves, Amazon, Ecuador
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Murray Cooper / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) group carrying leaves, Amazon, Ecuador
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Luciano Candisani / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) worker carrying leaf segment, Atlantic Forest, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Claudio Contreras / Leafcutter ant (Atta sp) cutting leaf, Kohunlich, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, December
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Albert Lleal / Leafcutter Ant (Trachymyrmex sp) in tropical rainforest carrying leaf, Sierra Nevada National Park, Venezuela
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Chien Lee / Leafcutter Ant (Atta laevigata) group carrying leaves, Kavac, Venezuela
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Chien Lee / Leafcutter Ant (Atta laevigata) group carrying leaves, Kavac, Venezuela
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Chien Lee / Leafcutter Ant (Atta laevigata) group cutting lead, Kavac, Venezuela
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Chien Lee / Leafcutter Ant (Atta laevigata) cutting leaf, Kavac, Venezuela
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Mark Bowler / Leaf-cutter ant (Atta sp) cutting a leaf, Pacaya-Samiria NR, Peru
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Trachymyrmex sp) carrying leaf
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Acromyrmex octospinosus) queen with starter fungus garden to begin new colony, Guadeloupe
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Konrad Wothe / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) carrying leaf segment, Honduras
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) ants taking leaves to nest, French Guiana
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Luciano Candisani / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) workers carrying leaf segments, Brazil
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Luciano Candisani / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) worker carrying leaf segment, Brazil
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Luciano Candisani / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) worker carrying leaf segment, Brazil
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Luciano Candisani / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) worker carrying leaf segment, Brazil
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Thomas Marent / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) pair dissecting leaf into fragments to be carried back to nest, Manu National Park, Peru
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Thomas Marent / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) group carrying leaves back to nest, Manu National Park, Peru
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Thomas Marent / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) group dissecting leaf into fragments to be carried back to nest, Henri Pittier National Park, Venezuela
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Thomas Marent / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) group carrying leaves back to nest, Henri Pittier National Park, Venezuela
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Thomas Marent / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) group carrying leaves back to nest, Amacayacu National Park, Colombia
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Thomas Marent / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) group dissecting leaf into fragments to be carried back to nest, Henri Pittier National Park, Venezuela
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Thomas Marent / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) group carrying leaves back to nest, Manu National Park, Peru
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Thomas Marent / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) group carrying leaves back to nest, Manu National Park, Peru
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Thomas Marent / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) group carrying leaves back to nest, Manu National Park, Peru
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Thomas Marent / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) group carrying leaves back to nest, Manu National Park, Peru
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Konrad Wothe / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) ant carrying freshly cut leaf, Costa Rica
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Konrad Wothe / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) ant cutting leaf, Costa Rica
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Konrad Wothe / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) ants carrying leaves, Costa Rica
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Konrad Wothe / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) ants carrying leaves, Costa Rica
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Hermann Brehm / Leaf cutting ant {Atta bichaerica} carrying part of leaf
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Dietmar Nill / Leaf cutter ant {Atta bichaerica} cutting leaf, Panama, Central America
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) workers carrying flower petals back to nest, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Piotr Naskrecki / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) major worker carrying a piece of leaf to feed the underground fungal garden these insects cultivate, Guyana
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Piotr Naskrecki / Leafcutter Ant (Trachymyrmex sp) showing fungal mycelium of the fungal garden these insects maintain and feed with leaves, Guyana
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PREMAPHOTOS / Leaf-cutting ants (Atta sexdens) returning to their nest with cut off portions of leaf for their fungus garden, in rainforest, Brazil
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Christian Ziegler / Leafcutter Ant (Atta columbica) worker carrying freshly cut leaf fragment, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Leafcutter Ant (Atta columbica) two workers tending to larva in fungus garden, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Christian Ziegler / Leafcutter Ant (Atta columbica) shadow of ants carrying leaves seen through leaf, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
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Michael Durham / Leaf-cutting Bee (Megachile sp) departing a Goldenrod flower (Solidago sp) after collecting nectar and pollen, North America
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Michael Durham / Leaf-cutting Bee (Megachile sp) flying towards a Goldenrod (Solidago sp) flower before collecting nectar and pollen, North America
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Michael Durham / Leaf-cutting Bee (Megachile sp) flies toward a Goldenrod flower (Solidago sp) abdomen is covered with pollen, North America
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Michael Durham / Leaf-cutting Bee (Megachile sp) departing a Goldenrod flower (Solidago sp) after collecting nectar and pollen, North America
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Michael Durham / Leaf-cutting Bee (Megachile sp) departing a Goldenrod (Solidago sp) flower after collecting nectar and pollen, North America
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Michael Durham / Leaf-cutting Bee (Megachile sp) departing a Goldenrod flower (Solidago sp) after collecting nectar and pollen, North America
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Kim Taylor / Bachacs / Leaf-cutting ants {Atta cephalotes} carrying leaf sections back to nest. Trinidad, West Indies also ocurrs in South America
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Dietmar Nill / Leafcutter ants on leaf {Atta sp}
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Kim Taylor / Leaf-cutting bee {Megachile sp) female carries birch leaf to burrow amongst pebbles UK.
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Kim Taylor / Leaf-cutting bee {Megachile sp} female carries birch leaf to burrow amongst pebbles, UK.
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Kim Taylor / Leaf-cutting bee {Megachile sp) female visiting campanula flower to collect pollen and nectar UK.
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Kim Taylor / Leaf-cutting bee {Megachile sp) bringing pollen to nest amongst roots of cactus in garden
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Kim Taylor / Leaf-cutting bee {Megachile sp) pupal case of drone with numerous phoretic mites UK.
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Kim Taylor / Leaf-cutting bee {Megachile sp) opened cell showing maturing larva and food store UK.
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Kim Taylor / Leaf-cutting bee {Megachile sp) cell exposed to show egg. on nectar pollen mix UK.
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Kim Taylor / Leaf-cutting bee {Megachile sp) exposed to show egg. on nectar pollen mix UK.
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Kim Taylor / Leaf-cutting bee {Megachile sp) excavated cells of rose leaves UK.
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Kim Taylor / Leaf-cutting bee {Megachile sp) cutting section of leaf to make cell for egg, UK.
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Kim Taylor / Leaf-cutting bee {Megachile sp) female near burrow entrance with a section of rose leaf UK.
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Hermann Brehm / Leaf cutting ant {Atta bisphaerica} carrying leaf on a log.
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Kim Taylor / Leaf-cutting Bee (Megachile sp) cutting spirea leaf. Dorset, UK.
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Kim Taylor / Cut-out of Leafcutter bee {Megachile sp} carrying leaf to nest. Surrey, UK.
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Kim Taylor / Leaf-cutting Bee (Megachile sp) female carries rose leaf to nest. UK
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Norbert Wu / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) group chop up and carry leaf pieces to cultivate fungus, rainforest, Panama
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PREMAPHOTOS / Leaf cutter ants feed on fallen fruit {Atta bisphaerica} Cerrado, Brazil
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PREMAPHOTOS / Leaf cutter ant queen digs nest {Atta bisphaerica} Cerrado, Brazil
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PREMAPHOTOS / Leafcutting ants returning to nest carrying leaf pieces (Atta cephalotes) tropical rainforest, Costa Rica
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PREMAPHOTOS / Leafcutter bee cutting piece off rose leaf (Megachile willughbiella) UK
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PREMAPHOTOS / Leafcutter ants cutting off pieces of leaf. (Atta cephalotes) tropical rainforest, Costa Rica
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PREMAPHOTOS / Leafcutter ants cutting and carrying pieces of leaf. (Atta cephalotes) tropical rainforest, Costa Rica
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PREMAPHOTOS / Leaf cutter bee carrying piece of leat to nest in garden hosepipe (Megachile versicolor) England
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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 attack, F...
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta sp) with their jaws full, ants carrying leaves must rely on others for defense against attack, a smaller ants ride on the leaf driving away attackers, Salto Morato Reserve, Atlant...
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta columbica) workers carrying leaves and Millipede follows their trail near Caaguazu, Brazil
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Mark Moffett / Army Ant (Labidus sp) group swarm over a Leafcutter (Atta sexdens) soldier, both species have massive, well defended colonies and normally avoid each other, in this case, the two armies retreated with...
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Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) soldiers attack photographer's foot, soldiers specialize in vertebrate defense, rarely leaving the nest unless it is disturbed, French Guiana