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I really like ants, and I am lucky to live in a place like Texas, which has representatives of EVERY ant subfamily in the Americas.
The region of the state that I am in has over 100 species of ants, ranging from army ants to acorn ants and vampire ants.
This thread will have good ant photos I've taken on it:

This one is either Cyphomyrmex or Mycetosoritis. Both of these genera are very minute fungus-growing ants, around 2 mm long. They gather bits of detritus and grow fungus on it, then eat the fungus.


This one is Leptogenys elongata, a swift, primitive ant that only eats terrestrial isopods (AKA roly-pollys, pillbugs, sowbugs)


This one is Psudeomyrmex gracilis, a slender wasplike ant that lives inside of twigs.


This one is Crematogaster punctata, an arboreal species in a large genus commonly known as acrobat ants.

I like those fungus ants.

Ever seen the velvet ants? not true ants, I know, but still closely related. Hymenoptera.

Thanks!
I have seen velvet ants here before. They look awesome.

Unfortunately, all the cool ants are hibernating at the moment...