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Ant Acacia
Panamá

photograph © Alex Wild 2007

The forest floor around these two Central American Acacia trees is curiously free of other plants.  The area is kept clean by a large colony of stinging ants in the genus Pseudomyrmex that live in the trees.

 
Panamá, Chiriquí.: 3.5k ENE Caldera
08º39.53'N 82º20.94'W 300m. 2.viii.2007
Riparian forest, ants on swollen-thorn Acacia sp.
#AW2928, voucher specimens deposited at ALWC.


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This image was captured with a Canon EOS D60, with a Canon 17-40x f4.0 wide-angle lens.