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April 6, 2022 02:58 pm GMT
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Watch these ants turn other ants into living storage tanks of food for the colony
When food isn't readily available, honeypot ants drop nectar into larger ants in the colony who will serve as living storage tanks of nourishment for the whole colony. From Deep Look:
— Read the restThe species of honeypot ant featured in our video, Myrmecocystus mexicanus, forages at night in the Southwest and Mexico.
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