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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Common black ants are known as garden ants because they like to live close to aphids, which excrete their favorite sweet food — honeydew. When any ants enter your home, it’s usually because ...

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 ...

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.

The ants recycle everything around them, including dead insects. They farm aphids for their honeydew. Wherever there are wood ants there are also richer populations of earthworms and richer ...