Honeypot Ant Adaptations at Jose Cruse blog

Honeypot Ant Adaptations. These ants are famed for their capacity to convert specific workers, referred to as repletes or plerergates, into organic storage vessels. honeypot ants can expand their abdomens to an astonishing size, resembling little balloons filled with nectar and honeydew.  — deep in their underground nests, honeypot ants stuff members of their own colony until they look like golden water balloons. Their food sources are insects and nectar from flowers.  — honeypot ants display an extraordinary evolutionary adaptation, distinguishing them from the realm of insects.  — underground colony of honeypot ants (myrmecocystus mimicus) at the san diego zoo. They live in arid deserts throughout the southwestern united states, mexico, australia and africa.  — honeypot ants or honey ants have replete workers in their colony that store liquid food in their abdomen to feed other ants in times of drought. these ants are called repletes. Drop by drop, worker ants deliver nectar and other liquid food into their largest sisters’ mouths.

 — underground colony of honeypot ants (myrmecocystus mimicus) at the san diego zoo. honeypot ants can expand their abdomens to an astonishing size, resembling little balloons filled with nectar and honeydew. They live in arid deserts throughout the southwestern united states, mexico, australia and africa. Their food sources are insects and nectar from flowers. These ants are famed for their capacity to convert specific workers, referred to as repletes or plerergates, into organic storage vessels.  — honeypot ants display an extraordinary evolutionary adaptation, distinguishing them from the realm of insects.  — deep in their underground nests, honeypot ants stuff members of their own colony until they look like golden water balloons.  — honeypot ants or honey ants have replete workers in their colony that store liquid food in their abdomen to feed other ants in times of drought. these ants are called repletes. Drop by drop, worker ants deliver nectar and other liquid food into their largest sisters’ mouths.

Honeypot Ants, the honey Pots for Aborigines of Australia Honey pot

Honeypot Ant Adaptations these ants are called repletes.  — deep in their underground nests, honeypot ants stuff members of their own colony until they look like golden water balloons. honeypot ants can expand their abdomens to an astonishing size, resembling little balloons filled with nectar and honeydew. These ants are famed for their capacity to convert specific workers, referred to as repletes or plerergates, into organic storage vessels.  — honeypot ants display an extraordinary evolutionary adaptation, distinguishing them from the realm of insects. They live in arid deserts throughout the southwestern united states, mexico, australia and africa. Drop by drop, worker ants deliver nectar and other liquid food into their largest sisters’ mouths. Their food sources are insects and nectar from flowers. these ants are called repletes.  — underground colony of honeypot ants (myrmecocystus mimicus) at the san diego zoo.  — honeypot ants or honey ants have replete workers in their colony that store liquid food in their abdomen to feed other ants in times of drought.