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Article: In Photos: Trap-Jaw Ant Babies Grow Up

Started By OhNoNotAgain , Aug 6 2020 10:30 PM

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#1 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted August 6 2020 - 10:30 PM

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While I was checking out the prehistoric hell ant article on Live Science, I came across these cool photos of trap jaw (Odontomachus) ant larvae, from 2017.

https://www.livescie...ant-babies.html

"The head and mouthparts of a trap-jaw ant in the second stage of larval development. Only about 0.4 percent of the 16,000 known ant species have been studied in the larval stage, making this a rare view indeed."

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