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Sericomyrmex amabilis
Central America

photograph © Alex Wild 2007

A fungus-growing ant worker carefully tends to a larva.  Other ant eggs and larvae are embedded within the fluffy white hyphae of the fungus garden.

 
PANAMA: Parque Soberania.
Laboratory colony at the University of Texas.

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This image was captured with a Canon EOS 20D, using a Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens.