Honeypot ants are a unique species drawing interest from those who visit Colorado Springs. There are two different types of honey pot ant: workers and repletes. The workers will go out and forage ...

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 ...

including Fast Fiery Ants, Honey Pot Ants and Leaf Cutting Ants. Demonstrations are at 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. “Going Buggy” gives children the chance to create their own ant, butterfly or bee ...

Deep in their underground nests, honeypot ants stuff members of their own colony until they look like golden water balloons. Drop by drop, worker ants deliver nectar and other liquid food into their ...

Mexican honey wasp. Wikimedia Commons Ants have similar lifestyles to their bee and wasp cousins and are common nectar foragers. Some species also make honey. “Honeypot ant” is a common name ...

Honey pot ant species have a set of workers that do just that – hang still from the roof of their nest serving “drinks” to their nest mates they have stored in their swollen abdomens.

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.