There are two different types of honey pot ant: workers and repletes ... Each grub has 15% protein and 10% fat and Conway estimated that eating 10 grubs would satisfy daily protein needs.

Dead insects provide protein and fat. Desert plants give them sweet nectar. Or dinner might be red artificial nectar, if a human is keeping the ants as pets. Workers carry the nectar back.

Leaf-cutter ants chew leaves into mulch, which grows an edible fungus. A worker caste of honey-pot ants called repletes swell into tiny balls to store food collected by foragers. Army ants move in ...

Honey from the Australian honeypot ant (Camponotus inflatus) may have medicinal properties that fight infection. While this has been known among Australia’s indigenous peoples for thousands of years, ...

Honey from the abdomen of an ant that lives predominantly in the arid regions of Australia has proven to be effective against the potentially deadly golden staph bacteria, according to a recent study.

Dead insects provide protein and fat. Desert plants give them sweet nectar. Or dinner might be red artificial nectar, if a human is keeping the ants as pets. Workers carry the nectar back. And they ...