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Adetomyrma sp. mad01
Madagascar

photograph © Alex Wild 2006

Adetomyrma earned the common name "dracula ants" for their habit of drinking hemolymph from their own larvae.  Several other species in the Amblyoponinae show the same behavior.

 
Madagascar: Captive colony at the California Academy of Sciences.

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This image was captured with a Canon EOS 20D, using a Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens.