creatures that are kept by the ants..

Moved to Arthropods

Got it...thanks. Good information!

Claire, this is what I wanted you to see!

Wonderful to see a picture that depicts this kind of ranching!

one more interesting fact about aphids: they clone themselves - that means, photos now taken shows all females, only in autumn appear males too - those aphids are all winged, and they mate, to mix up the genetic pool

no, ants invented slavery as well.

Aphids secreting honeydew, I meant! :-)

some sort of honeydews? Is amazing that some ants colonies have crops of fungus and herds of dews. Then some people likes to think that only humans invented domestication :-)

Hi, it looks for me like a colony of plant louse. The ants eat/drink this sweet liquid (it's full of sugar). Quite often the ants take the plant louse from plant to plant like "shepperds". Saarbrigger