THIS is an incredible timelapse showing a swarm of ants outsmarting humans by solving an unbelievable puzzle. The bizarre ...

In return, the ants get the honeydew from the aphids. Ants have also been found to use previous experiences to make decisions based on the good of the colony, even changing their priorities.

Other facts: Black garden ants don’t just hunt food—they farm it. They often live alongside colonies of aphids, which secrete a substance called honeydew that ants eat. The ants “milk” the ...

Other ant species herd aphid 'cattle', which they eat and also milk for honeydew, a plant sap excreted by the aphids. They even have their own ‘fences’ to prevent the aphids from straying away.

Scientists have long admired the industrious ants that keep aphids as cows and milk them for their sweet “honeydew” secretion. Now a graduate student in entomology has added to the brief ...

The presence of ants also promotes the proliferation of aphids, which live in symbiosis. Aphids produce sweet nectar ...

and aphids that feed on plant sap and excrete a sweet "honeydew" that ants find delicious. One common instance of symbiosis teams up microbe and plant. Legume plants, such as peas and beans ...

Much of the red wood ants’ nourishment comes from honeydew secreted by aphids, but they also need protein. They can kill insects and other invertebrates much larger than themselves through sheer ...