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Southern wood ant (Formica rufa)

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Southern wood ant anthill in pine forest

© BBC Natural History Unit
Southern wood ant cleaning its antennae

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Southern wood ants capturing a pine beauty moth caterpillar

© BBC Natural History Unit
Southern wood ants attack and carry away a sawfly larva

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Southern wood ants moving a lacewing carcass

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Southern wood ants carrying bread to nest

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Wryneck feeding on Southern wood ant cocoons

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Disoriented Southern wood ant is killed by another wood ant

© BBC Natural History Unit

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