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Harpegnathos saltator - Indian Jumping Ant
India

photograph © Alex Wild 2008

A worker Harpegnathos carries a paralyzed cricket back to her laboratory nest.  The weight of the cricket is several times that of the ant.

 
Laboratory Colony at Arizona State University
vii.2008

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This image was captured with a Canon EOS 20D using a Canon 100mm f2.8 macro lens.