Honey Pot Ants

Location: arid regions of North America, Australia and Africa.
Species: Honey Pot Ants
Added: 2025-11-16
Recorded: 2022-4-5
Source: Deep Look

Discover the weird World of honeypot ants who amongst other things, 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 larg-est sisters’ mouths. These living food larders are known as repletes and when food is scarce in the desert, the col-ony will feed from them.

Honeypot ants – also known as honey ants – are found in arid regions of North America, Australia and Africa.