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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Long-Legged Desert Ant

Cataglyphis bicolor

About

A large, bicolored desert ant with a distinctive red thorax and black head and gaster. Workers are solitary foragers with exceptionally long legs that keep their bodies elevated from hot sand. They are among the most heat-tolerant terrestrial animals.

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Did You Know?

Workers can detect and memorize visual landmarks after just a single exposure, an exceptional feat for an insect brain.