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. Other ants then extract nourishment from them, through the process of trophallaxis. They function as living larders. Honeypot ants belong to any of several genera, including Myrmecocystus and Camponotus. They were first documented in 1881 by Henry C. McCook,[2][3] and described further in 1908 by William Morton Wheeler.[4]
^"Replete". Antbase. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
^McCook, Henry C. (1882). The Honey and Occident Ants.
^McCook, Henry C. (1907). Nature's craftsmen; popular studies of ants and other insects. Harper and Brothers. pp. 96–111.
^Cite error: The named reference Wheeler1908 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
Honeypotants, also called honey ants, are ants which have specialized workers (repletes, plerergates, or rotunds) that consume large amounts of food...
for storing honey Honeypotant, various ant species and their individual members Honeypot, flowering plant Protea cynaroides Honeypot dryandra, flowering...
colony upon returning. Carpenter ants and their larvae are eaten in various parts of the world. In Australia, the Honeypotant (Camponotus inflatus) is regularly...
seed-harvesters Carebara Carebara diversa, seed harvesters Leafcutter antHoneypotant Conference, International Union for the Study of Social Insects. Italian...
repletes. For instance, these replete workers develop in the North American honeypotant Myrmecocystus mexicanus. Usually the largest workers in the colony develop...
is a species of ant in the genus Myrmecocystus, which is one of the six genera that bear the common name "honey ant" or "honeypotant", due to curious...
Prenolepis imparis, commonly known as the winter ant, false honey ant, or false honeypotant, is a species of ant in the genus Prenolepis. The species is found...
In some special cases, such as the abdomens of termite queens and honeypotants means that continuous growth of arthropods is not possible. Therefore...
self-sacrificing behavior. For example, members of the sterile caste of the honeypotants such as Myrmecocystus fill their abdomens with liquid food until they...
sandy, semiarid habitat with sparse vegetation, near harvester ant or especially honeypotant colonies, which is their primary diet. The color of roundtail...
ants in the subfamily Formicinae. It is one of five genera that includes honeypotants. Worker ants keep and tend plerergates, which are other ants that...
body morphology or unique behaviors, such as the engorged bodies of the honeypotant Myrmecocystus mexicanus or the waggle dance of honey bees and a wasp...
pollen and nectar, in a fashion quite similar to many solitary bees Honeypotant The Mayans kept and collected honey and brood, but from stingless social...
on the bird droppings, thus getting infected. Gamergate (type of ant) Honeypotant Wheeler, William M. (1910): "The effects of parasitic and other kinds...
founded the Isaac’s Ant Foundation, which along with the Babbitt Brothers Foundation developed a memorial exhibition featuring honeypotant farms at the Museum...
develop into queens, workers, and, in some cases soldiers. In the case of the ant, P. morrisi, an embryo must develop under certain temperature and photoperiod...
workers ("honeypotants") gorged with food; they function as living storage containers. Four species are host to obligate slave-making ants in the genus...
larger workers in Myrmecocystus mexicanus (a North America species of honeypotant) tend to become repletes, or workers so engorged with food that they...
mwcollect.org in which the group released a tar.gz containing listens of their honeypot networks. ZF0 (Zer0 For Owned) performed numerous attacks in the name of...
birds, 20 mammals, 46 reptiles and three frogs. Emus, bats, dingoes and honeypotants are significant animals in the local Aboriginal culture. Bat species...
by the legs, moulded until malleable and used in the construction of honeypots, to cover the eggs, to line empty cocoons for use as storage containers...
Global Information