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Pheidole barbata
Carrizo Plain Nat'l Monument, California, USA

photograph © Alex Wild 2003

Many Pheidole are seed-harvesting ants, and here the major and the minor worker at right handle a small seed.  The large heads of the major house muscles and powerful jaws used to crack seeds.



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This image was captured with a Canon EOS D60, with a Canon 65/2.8 MPE 1-5x Macro lens.