• mandibules without teeth
• in a Plagiolepis cf. taurica colony
• photos of the male at the end of the gallery

Identification based on "Winged Ants - The Male - Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the World, Behavioral ecology of mating flight"

Florida Bluet riding a sandwich through the inky void. This is not an altered photo, nor was this my sandwich.

magiccarpetride

Black leaf cutter ant. Cool!

Harvesting a prickly pear flower

A large (10ft+) Burmese python being attacked by an alligator.

Nesting in Cussonia arborea:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/1171070

Aposematic coloration

Camponotus sp. nov. (top), mimic of Crematogaster inflata (bottom).

Observed underneath potted plants on outdoor patio

Ome of the few times I got completely bamboozled. Thought it was another lame old exploder(hence the shitty quality)-had to go wtf when examining my pictures on the plane out from Borneo

A mix of red and brown individuals in the same nest