A cool story about sacrifice and social immunity in ants. #Ants #insects #Biology

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Sick baby ants sacrifice themselves to save their colony

New research shows ill pupae emit a chemical signal before ever leaving their cocoons.

A Formica incerta field ant worker drinks nectar from a Queen Anne's Lace. Tennessee. #Formica #Ants #Insects

Post a photo of an animal that looks Gen-AI but is 100% real. Hegemona lineata, Belize. #Tenebrionidae #Photography #Insects

One of my favorite local planthoppers, Dictyonissus griphus. Such distinctive wing venation. #Tropiduchidae #Planthopper #Insects #Nature

A Trigonarthris atrata flower longhorn feeds from the spring blooms of a rough-leafed dogwood. Austin, Texas. #Cerambycidae #Longhorns #nature #Insects

Mosquitoes, a photo gallery:

Mosquitoes - Alex Wild

Mosquitoes comprise a large family, Culicidae, of slender, scale-covered flies found worldwide. We think of mosquitoes as voracious blood-feeders, ...

#Mosquitoes #Nature #Insects

Up close with a pygmy mole cricket, Neotridactylus apicalis. Stengl Lost Pines Biological Station, Texas. #Insects #Orthoptera #Tridactylidae

The genus name for American harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex, means "bearded ant", and it refers to a basket of hairs on the underside of the head that helps these desert ants carry dry sand. Monahans Sandhills State Park, Texas. #Ants #Pogonomyrmex #Formicidae #Insects

This is such a cool study. A parasitic ant queen tricks worker ants into murdering their own queen, so the parasite can take over the colony. #Ants #Science https://www.sciencenews.org/article/parasitic-ant-matricide-queen

Macro photograph of a large, robust, aposematically colored red, black, and white insect in oblique front view standing on a seedhead, the insect's metallic blue wings blurry with the first wingbeats prior to launch. #Symphyta #Sawflies #Insects #australianwildlife