"At dusk, Kronauer tracked the colony of nomadic army ants as it moved,
travelling up to a quarter of a mile through the rainforest near La
Selva biological station, in north-eastern Costa Rica. The ants would
use their bodies to build a new daytime nest to house the queen and
larvae. They would form a scaffold of vertical chains by interlocking
claws on their feet and then create a network of chambers and tunnels
into which the larvae and queen would be moved from the last bivouac."
Photo credit: Daniel Kronauer, from the
2019 Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners.
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