Honey making ant, its way of storing honey will surprise you

Ant also makes honey. You might find this funny, but it is true. There is also a species of ant in the world that makes honey. It is also known by the common language Honeyspot Ants and Honey Ants. They also collect nectar like bees, but the method of storing honey in them is quite interesting. In scientific language it is called Camponotus inflates. Know how it stores honey … (Wikipedia)

Honey ants make honey, but do not build hives to store it. She stores it in her stomach. She sucks the juice of flowers which turns into honey and keeps on collecting in her stomach. After a time the stomach becomes so big that even an ant starts looking small in front of it. This is its biggest identity, seeing which it can be known that it is a honey ant. (ant)

After a certain time, so much honey gets accumulated in their stomach that it does not go away from them. In such a situation, they remain confined to some part of the wall and remain hanging all the time. Whenever their other members need food to stay alive, they stay alive by eating this sweet fluid from them. They also like to live in colonies like flies. (Smithsonian Institution NMNH Insect Zoo)

This species of ants is found in dry or desert areas of Australia, America, Mexico and Africa. These are the parts where food is not easily available for the ants. That’s why ants depend on the nectar of flowers to survive. This quality of them to store honey works to keep them alive. (University of Western Australia)

Research has revealed that be it bee or ant, antioxidants are found in the honey of both. It has been said in a report that its honey can be used in the treatment of diabetes. However, solid research is yet to be done on this. After research, it will be proved that there is so much power in this thing.