Wood ants, Formica rufa, swarming over and around a dead grasshopper, intending to break it up and carry it back to the nest, above view.

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Photo credit: © Dorling Kindersley / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: aggressive, animals, ant, ants, arthropods, behaviour, colony, formica, formicidae, grasshopper, hunting, hymenoptera, insects, invertebrates, rufa, swarming, wood