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Myrmecocystus mexicanus is a species of ant in the genus Myrmecocystus, which is one of the six genera that bear the common name "honey ant" or "honeypot ant", due to curious behavior where some of the workers will swell with liquid food until they become immobile and hang from the ceilings of nest chambers, acting as living food storage for the colony.
Myrmecocystus honeypot ants, showing the repletes or plerergates, their abdomens swollen to store honey, above ordinary workers. Honeypot ants, also called honey ants, are ants which have specialized workers (repletes, [1] plerergates, or rotunds) that consume large amounts of food to the point that their abdomens swell enormously.
Myrmecocystus (from Koine Greek μυρμήκιον [mýrmikion], meaning "ant", and κύστις [kýstis], meaning "bladder" or "sac"), is a North American genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. It is one of five genera that includes honeypot ants . [ 2 ]
Myrmecocystus mimicus is a North American species of ant in the genus Myrmecocystus. [1] The species is widely distributed, from Kansas south to Texas and Mexico , and west to California . [ 2 ]
Myrmecocystus testaceus is a species of honeypot ant found throughout the southern United States. It is usually nocturnal, and nests in sand. [1] They can spray formic acid from their gasters to melt skin tissue. Instead of stinging and swarming, they stretch their prey by the legs until it splits or dies from bites and formic acid.
Myrmecocystus placodops is a species of honeypot ant native to the southwestern United States and northern ... "Catalogue of the Ants of the World" (PDF). unpublished ...
U.S. actor and comedian Steve Martin and the state government of Australia’s Northern Territory have thrown their weight behind “Honey Ant Dreamers,” a feature film about the Indigenous art ...
Myrmecocystus kennedyi is a species of honeypot ant in the subgenus Endiodioctes native to the western United ... "Catalogue of the Ants of the World" (PDF ...