These are all worker ants of a species called the Little Black Ant, Monomorium minimum. Notice how they are different sizes. Remember that ants don't grow once they are adults, these workers had to be different sizes as larvae too (family Formicidae, the ants).
Jim Kalisch (photographer; copyright holder), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Entomology
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