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Harpegnathos saltator - Indian Jumping Ant
India

photograph © Alex Wild 2008

Researchers at Arizona State University mark individual ants with unique sequences of paint dots to keep track of individuals in a colony.  This one appears ready for the holidays.
  

Laboratory Colony at Arizona State University
vii.2008


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