Apparently there's an ant war going on in my yard! 3mm or so in size there are clearly two types of ants going at it, I thought it was one group gathering food but nope, that's a war! Also that's what a Canon 180mm L macro lens can do in terms of depth, I can follow one tiny ant as it runs about using the focal ring only. The pic on the bottom has the two ants fighting but it's focused a couple of millimeters past them, the one on top brings them into focus.
Nice photos! When you see little brown ants fighting on a sidewalk it's nearly always Tetramorium immigrans. The pavement ant.
I'm tempted to say that's the only species here, but the photos aren't close enough to tell. They are doing the "mandible locking" move that these colonies tend to do when fighting each other.
There are some stills showing how they lock mandibles and hit each other with their antennae... they don't always kill each other...
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