Tropical ants

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

A bunch of Polyrhachis sp. 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, Echinopla sp.? For more cool, blue insect, click here.


Bluish ant, Echinopla sp.? with pupa


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 and an aphid.


Tetraponera sp. ant


Tetraponera sp. queen ant


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

Camponotus sp. ant


Camponotus sp. ant.


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


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


Camponotus gigas ant under attack by Phoridae flies.


Camponotus 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. More butterflies here.


The same Branded Imperial with the same ant, closer.


Weaver ants with dead wasp. More wasps here.


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


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.


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


Ants and butterfly mutualism


Unkown queen ant


Dolichoderus sp. ant


Polyrhachis sp. ant tending scale insects


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.