#acromyrmex — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #acromyrmex, aggregated by home.social.
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A black garden leafcutter ant, Acromyrmex lundii, slicing through a leaf. Santa Fe, Argentina. (older photo from 2009)
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An Acromyrmex niger leafcutter ant worker makes a characteristically circular cut in a citrus leaf. Monte Verde, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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When people think about leafcutter ants, they usually picture Atta, the familiar giant leafcutters. But their sister genus Acromyrmex has twice as many species. Here's a gallery:
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https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Taxonomic-List-of-Ant-Genera/Acromyrmex
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In a remnant of Brazil's once-great Atlantic coastal rainforest, an Acromyrmex disciger leafcutter ant carries a leaf back to her nest. The forest where these ants live has been 95% destroyed by human activities. Morretes, Paraná, Brazil.
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An Acromyrmex octospinosus leafcutter ant, photographed at the famous La Selva biological station in the lowland rainforests of Costa Rica.
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An Acromyrmex lundii leafcutter ant finishes a cut. Santa Fe, Argentina.
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The key to this photo was placing the flash above and behind the leaf, facing the lens.
Acromyrmex coronatus leafcutter ant, lab colony at UTAustin.