Honey Ant

Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.animals
Subject: Re: ant - honingmier.jpg
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:33:05 +0200

"JY.BICHATON" wrote:

>I'm looking for ant's pictures ? Can you help me?
>Thank you
>

Honeypot-ant
Scanned from Scientific American

Martin Kramer

mkramer@wxs.nl
http://home.wxs.nl/~mkramer/

filename=honingmier.jpg

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Honeypot ants, also called honey ants, are ants which are gorged with food by workers, to the point that their abdomens swell enormously, a condition called plerergate. Other ants then extract nourishment from them. They function essentially as living larders.

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