Honey ant recipe?
You are honey ant dreaming!
The honey ant of the desert has an unusual method of providing food in times of scarcity. Certain members of the colony are stuffed with liquid food or water until the rear portions of their bodies are enlarged to the size of a pea. When a famine occurs. these ants disgorge their supplies to feed the others.
Honey ants have small head and thorax, but big abdomen full of honey. They are edible and form an occasional part of the diet of various Australian aborigines. They live in underground nests found in a variety of arid or semi arid environments. Some live in extremely hot deserts. The nests are usually on the shady side of the tree, which can be up to two meters deep. To eat a honey ant, you pick it up by the head and put the abdomen in your mouth and bite it.
