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Weaver ants

Oecophylla smaragdina

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Found this on a custard apple tree in my garden .

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Not ant nursery, but ant farm!!! Those are not young ants, they are bugs called aphids. Some kinds of ants actually farm aphids, they protect them, move them from plants to plants, and milk them for a sweet nectar that they secret.
Is it possible these are aphids the ant is tending?
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PublishedFebruary 3, 2012

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