Eciton burchelli/Eciton army ant

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Eciton burchelli/Eciton army ant. Macroscopic Solutions. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The eciton army ant is native to the Americas. It is a polymorphic ant with the soldier ants (like the one pictured) having much larger heads and sickle-shaped mandibles. The colonies live in bivouacs, these are nests the worker ants construct using their own bodies en-mass. The nests are routinely moved as the foraging paths change. Width of the image 1.5 centimetres

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