Tropical ants

My ants collection. Please correct me if you come across any ID mistakes :)

A bunch of Polyrhachis armata - (ID credit: Stephane De Greef)  ants with pupae, in between two leaves. Found them after a rather heavy downpour.


A Camponotus sp. ant and a treehopper.


A Camponotus sp. ant and a spittle bug nymph in the foam.


A group of yellow crazy ants attacking a beetle. For more beetles of Malaysia, click here.


Black queen ant (Polyrhachis sp.)with a red mite.


Meranoplus sp.


Polyrhachis sp. queen ant.


Two Polyrhachis sp. ants having an argument.


Another Polyrhachis sp. ant.


Trap jaw ant


Trap jaw ant attacking a caterpillar


Polyrhachis sp. ant having a tug of war


A robber fly with prey - winged ant. More robber flies here.


Bluish ant, Calomyrmex sp. - ID credit: Dave General. For more cool, blue insect, click here.


Bluish ant, Calomyrmex sp. with larva - ID credit: Dave General


Crematogaster sp. ant?


Dead ant, fungus victim.


A male ant-mimic crab spider Amyciaea lineatipes with prey - a weaver ant. More of these cool ant-mimic crab spiders here and here (mating shots :D).


Gnamptogenys sp. ant.

Gnamptogenys sp. ant with food.

A queen ant, Myrmicaria sp.


A mating pair of assassin bugs with Myrmicaria sp. queen ant prey, and a voyeuristic yellow crazy ant:D. More bugs porn here.


Myrmicaria sp. ant


A robber fly with queen ant prey. More robber flies here.


Huntsman spider with ant prey. Night macro.  More tropical spiders here.


A dead ant (Polyrhachis sp.) and an aphid. ID credit: James Trager


Tetraponera sp. ant


Tetraponera sp. queen ant


Camponotus sp. ant glued to the leaf. Not sure what was going on.

Calomyrmex sp. ant - ID credit: Dave General


Calomyrmex sp. ant. - ID credit: Dave General


A dead Dinomyrmex gigas ant being eaten by a zombie ant Ophiocordyceps fungus


A dead Dinomyrmex gigas ant being eaten by a zombie ant Ophiocordyceps fungus


Dinomyrmex gigas ant under attack by Phoridae flies.


Dinomyrmex gigas ant carrying a dead grasshopper.


Camponotus sp. ant.


Portrait of a major worker ant of Camponotus sp.


Camponotus sp. queen ant


Assassin bug nymph, Acanthaspis petax, with ant prey, and ant carcasses on its back.


A Branded Imperial butterfly and an ant (Dolichoderinae, maybe Tapinoma melanocephalum.- ID credit: James Trager) . More butterflies here.


The same Branded Imperial with the same ant, closer.


Weaver ants with dead male Dorylus sp ant. (ID credit: James Trager)


Weaver ant biting me :D


Weaver ant queen


A wet weaver ant queen


Two weaver ant queens


A young weaver ant queen and her new colony, with pupae at different stages of development.


Crematogaster inflata ant.


Three ants. Meranoplus sp.



Polyrhachis sp. ants with pupae


A mated queen ant, Cataulacus sp.


Tiny bathroom ant..about 1.35mm long, shot at 5X with the MP-E65. Tetramorium sp. - ID credit: James Trager.


A Diacamma sp. ant, and a sow bug. Lit by a single 270EX on FMMB.


A Malaysian black and gold huntsman and a fearless yellow crazy ant. More tropical spiders here.


A mirid bug, Kosmiomiris rubroornatus, with Union Jack marking, and a tiny ant - Tapinoma sessile - ID credit: James Trager


A tiger beetle with a dead ant's head on its antenna. More beetles of Malaysia here.


Ants and butterfly mutualism


Male Camponotus 


Dolichoderus sp. ant


Polyrhachis sp. ant tending scale insects. Could be a Dolichoderus sp - suggested by James Trager


Polyrhachis sp. ant


Marauder ant (Pheidologeton sp.). Minor workers, and a supermajor worker on a tree trunk at night.


Besides minor workers, supermajor worker, there is a major worker too in this image.


A hardworking weaver ant building nest at night, alone!


Male Ponerine ant








All images taken with a Canon 40D,  MP-E 65 macro lens, and  MT-24EX Twin Lite.