The Honey Ants Dream. The worker ants clean the honeypots and with their antenna scratch the neck of the replete. At the end of the cleaning, the repletes open their mandibles to provide access to a sort of stopper inside their mouths and a drop of nectar comes out to feed the worker ant. Northern Territory, Australia

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Image size: 5760x3840 pixels (19.2"x12.8" @300dpi)

Shooting date : 2015-03-03

Keywords

Wild animal / Insect / Hymenoptere / Ant / Carpenter ant (Camponotus sp) / Honey ant (Camponotus inflatus)

Area / Desert

Enumeration / Group

Individual / Stage of development / Imago

Behavior / Animal construction / Ant-hill

Shot / Indoor

Oceania / Australia / Northern Territory NT

Organism / Body fluid / Excretion liquid / Excrement / Honeydew

Suspend

Organism / Morphology / Morphological adaptation

Organism / Morphology / Morphology (zoology) / Worker (zoology)

March (month)

Behavior / Trophallaxis

Individual / Nobody

Latin keywords

Eukaryota / Opisthokonta / Metazoa / Bilateria / Coelomata / Protostomia / Articulata / Arthropoda / Tracheata / Antennata / Hexapoda / Insecta / Hymenoptera / Aculeata / Vespoidea / Formicidae / Camponotus

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