honey ant

noun

any of several ants, especially of the genus Myrmecocystus, that feed on honeydew or nectar and store the excess juices in the bodies of certain worker ants.

First recorded in 1865–70

There is a curious kind of ant in the southwestern states and Mexico called the honey ant.

The honey-ant is herself a storehouse of food in case of famine.

Two species which are now attached to the honey-ant were formerly honey-ants, etc.

Here we have the churinga ilkinia, or sacred rock-drawing, in red and white, of the honey ant totem in the Warramunga tribe.

Acre after acre of the soil wherein lives the honey ant is dug over for this toothsome mite.

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