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Honey or honey pot ants is a common name of a number of unrelated species with similar habits. Any idea what the yellow grape-like objects are hanging from the nest? The honey ants are the camels of the ant family. They live in dry areas throughout the world, but particularly the deserts of Australia, where food and [...] Researchers recently discovered a way to control cane toads, an introduced pest, in Australia: put out cat food for the meat ants, Iridomyrmex reburrus. Sound a bit far fetched? It turns out that when scientists scattered cat food along the banks of cane toad-infested ponds, the meat ants would come to the shore to pick it [...] Despite the rain, the ASU Social Insect Expo held at the Desert Botanical Garden was the place to be last night. The room was packed with people of all ages interested in learning more about ants, honey bees and other insects. The exhibits included some metallic casts of ant nests. This is a fire ant mound. [...] When I am acting as the “Consult-Ant” and answering questions about ant farms, people are generally interested in finding out more about ant queens. When an ant colony is ready to branch out, the current queen lays eggs that develop into males or new queens instead of workers. Adult male ants are winged, and have small [...] |
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