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PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANTS IN NEW ZEALAND & THE PACIFIC

The pictures below are free for use elsewhere for educational, scientific, and non-commercial uses, so long as you acknowledge the source (e.g.- "photo © Phil Lester"). In the unlikely event of you wanting any of these for commercial use, please contact me. I have larger file sizes of each photograph. Click on each photograph for a larger version.

Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) on Amblyopone australis in New Zealand	Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) in NZ
The 'Southern ant' Monomorium antarcticum	The 'Southern ant' Monomorium antarcticum
Odontomachus simillimus (it bit me)	26 March, 2007em> from Fiji.
Pheidole fervens in Fiji, eating tuna fish on a bait card.	Pheidole megacephala tending homoptera in Fiji.
Pheidole sexpinosa collected from the Tokelau Atolls.	Tapinoma melanochephalum on flowers in Fiji.
Tapinoma melanochephalum on flowers in Fiji.	Tetramorium bicarinatum exiting a nest in Fiji.

More pictures to come, when i get the time...
All photographs taken with a Nikon D70s, with Sigma EM-140DG ring-flash & AF Micro Nikkor 60mm lense.  
Phil Lester (homepage http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/phil_lester/)

Recently published:

Lester, Abbott, Sarty & Burns (2009) Competitive assembly of South Pacific invasive ant communities. BMC Ecology 9: 3. [PDF]

Sagata & Lester (2009) Behavioural plasticity associated with propagule size, resources, and the invasion success... Journal of Applied Ecology 46: 19-27 [PDF]

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