Tropical Carpenter Ant (IMAGE)

Penn State

Tropical Carpenter Ant

Caption

This is a carpenter ant in the tropical rain forest manipulated by fungus to bite onto a leaf up high in the vegetation and die, raining spores on the ants below.

Credit

David Hughes, Penn State

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