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last updated 5.May.2004


Myrmecocystus (honeypot ants)

Myrmecocystus are soil-nesting ants endemic to the arid regions of western North America. Some members of each colony become living storage containers and hang from the ceilings of nest chambers deep underground, their abdomens greatly swollen with food.


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Myrmecocystus 
flaviceps

Myrmecocystus 
kennedyi

Myrmecocystus mendax & Pogonomyrmex barbatus

Myrmecocystus mendax & Pogonomyrmex barbatus

Myrmecocystus mendax & Pogonomyrmex barbatus

Myrmecocystus mendax & Pogonomyrmex barbatus

Myrmecocystus 
mexicanus

Myrmecocystus 
mexicanus

Myrmecocystus mimicus

Myrmecocystus mimicus

Myrmecocystus mimicus

Myrmecocystus mimicus

Myrmecocystus mimicus

Myrmecocystus mimicus

Myrmecocystus mimicus

Myrmecocystus mimicus

Myrmecocystus mimicus

Myrmecocystus placodops

Myrmecocystus placodops

Myrmecocystus placodops

Myrmecocystus placodops

Myrmecocystus tenuinodis

Myrmecocystus tenuinodis

Myrmecocystus testaceus

Myrmecocystus testaceus

Myrmecocystus 
yuma


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