or yellow. Ants look much like termites, and the two are often confused. Ants can be identified by their elbowed antennae, and narrow "waist" between the abdomen and thorax. Some ants have wings ...

Exotic ants also take a toll. An endangered yellow-faced bee visits a native ... when people collect wood for bonfires. What looks like a dried naupaka twig may actually contain a tiny bee ...

Ants you might find on Maui: graceful twig ant (center) as well as (clockwise from top left) the sickle-toothed ant, black house ant, yellow crazy ... and interesting to look at, the same can ...

Velvet ants are often brightly coloured, commonly featuring red, orange, yellow, black and white ... with birds where some mealworms were painted red and black to look like the wasp Dasymutilla ...