The honey pot workers are ants that are fed food until the abdomens distend into the trademark honey colored orb shape. When times are lean the colony can draw nutrients from these workers.
Some species of honey pot ants live in deserts in North America, Australia, and Africa. The tend to gravitate to the hottest parts of the desert.
Some of the ants store food and water for the rest of the colony.
Honey pot ants have a lage store of honey in its abdomen, the total size of the ants is about the size of your thumb, but only fatter. They also taste very good if you chew it.
Honey pot ants can be found in various locations including Africa, Australia, and North America. The only place that these ants are thought of as a food source for humans is Australia. To purchase honey pot ants you would have to find a vendor in Australia.
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Myrmrcocystus Pogonias
They live in the south eastern dessert in Australia!
They live in the south eastern dessert in Australia!
A honey pot ant will not burst if they get too big. Their instinct tells them when to stop ingesting the liquids into their bodies.
Honey pot ants are eaten by humans as well as other desert dwellers. Anteaters are large predators that can take out a colony. Ants also fall victims to various beetles and other ants.
They can live up to 2 to 5 yrs. most live up to 4 yrs
The duration of The Honey Pot is 2.5 hours.
The Honey Pot was created on 1967-03-21.
There are are two, I believe, one that lives in Southwestern North America and Northern Mexico(Myrmecocystus mexicanus), the other lives in Australia.