Well, I don't have a lot of pics of ants. I mean, they are so ubiquitous that one never really gets excited and says, "oooh, and ant! Let me get a picture of that!".

As promised, however, I do have a picture of ants tending aphids - which I got while up around Grand Lake Stream in Maine:

More of interest, I think, are the resources I can point you to should you be interested in poking around more.

Here is Holldobler's and Wilson's epic work, the Ants:

https://www.amazon.com/Ants-Bert-Holldobler/dp/0674040759/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1506765560&sr=1-1&keywords=ants+wilson

Everything you could want to know about ant is in this book. Well, maybe not everything, but darn close.

I have not read this work, but from what I understand Deborah Gordon's work is excellent. I've heard it is an interesting contrast to Wilson's work.

https://www.amazon.com/Ants-At-Work-Society-Organized/dp/1451665709/ref=sr_1_23?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1506765661&sr=1-23&keywords=ants

If you live in New England, and really want to get into ants, this is the book to have:

https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Ants-New-England/dp/0300169302/ref=sr_1_74?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1506765812&sr=1-74&keywords=ants

I know there are other books out there for other regions, so poke around - you'll likely be able to find a good reference book for ants in your area.

But mostly I wanted to give you a smattering here of the incredible amount of diversity and volume of ant research that is going on. I record these episode about a month in advance. Here is a list of current ant research that I just happened to come across over the last month:

A great little article about a medical condition, it's link to ants, and the role of indigenous cultures in knowledge:

https://entomologytoday.org/2017/09/29/the-story-of-the-little-fire-ant-and-why-modern-medicine-can-learn-from-indigenous-cultures/

A really cool article about how ants interact with each other:

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-ant-species-coexist-territory.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

an article about discovering 74 new species of ants from Australia. 74!!!

pub_releases/2017-09/pp-haa092117.php

An article about mutualism between plants and ants -

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-09/uot-ssm091817.php

A cool article about a really wierd fossil ant:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2146821-meet-the-vampire-ant-from-hell-with-huge-jaws-and-a-metal-horn

A lastly great article about "lazy" ants - kind of an interesting counterbalance to all the anthropomorphic descriptions of ants as industrious:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-09/uoa-lam090817.php

All of this I just came across over the last month. Pretty impressive and interesting.