An Inga tree offers up nectar to a Dolichoderus bispinosus forager. 

Armenia, Belize
Eciton hamatum army ant soldier. This portrait is a composite of 32 photographs taken at different focal depths and stacked to produce an artificially sharp image. 

Armenia, Belize
Eciton hamatum army ant soldier. This portrait is a composite of 32 photographs taken at different focal depths and stacked to produce an artificially sharp image. 

Armenia, Belize
In exchange for protection, swollen-thorn Acacia trees provide Pseudomyrmex ants with food and shelter.  Here an ant feeds from a leaf nectary. (Pseudomyrmex spinicola)

Chiriqui, Panama
Eciton hamatum army ant soldier. This portrait is a composite of 64 photographs taken at different focal depths and stacked to produce an artificially sharp image. The unusual single-lens eyes are unique to this genus and may be the result of re-evolved vision from blind ancestors.

Armenia, Belize
Eciton hamatum army ant soldier. This portrait is a composite of 32 photographs taken at different focal depths and stacked to produce an artificially sharp image. 

Armenia, Belize
An Inga tree offers up nectar to a Dolichoderus bispinosus forager. 

Armenia, Belize
Messor pergandei harvester ant. The large heads of major workers house muscles for milling seeds. 

Palm Desert, California, USA
See photo in original gallery.