Black-headed Bull Ant in Copley, Flinders Ranges (20mm).
Read about bull ants in the Australian Geographic article Australia’s native bull ants are really just wingless wasps.
Black-headed Bull Ant in Copley, Flinders Ranges (20mm).
Read about bull ants in the Australian Geographic article Australia’s native bull ants are really just wingless wasps.
Ant constructions observed directly after summer flooding in the Northern Flinders Ranges.
Iridomyrmex ants farming herds of aphids (and their white nymphs) in Spring in Beltana. The aphids feed on the sap, in this case of an Eremophila biserrata, and excrete sugary ‘honeydew’ which is farmed by agricultural ants in exchange for protection.
Ant architecture on the salty shore of Halligan Bay, Lake Eyre North.