Ants have been a food resource for Aborigines in Australia, who relished especially the honey ants, which they call yarumpa.
Honey ants store nectar in their bodies to sustain their colony during times of drought.
We go hunting for honey ants and we look for bush turkey.
Definition of honey ant in US English:
honey ant
noun
An ant that stores large amounts of honeydew and nectar in its elastic abdomen, which becomes greatly distended. This is then fed to nest mates by regurgitation.
Myrmecocystus and other genera, family Formicidae
Example sentencesExamples
Ants have been a food resource for Aborigines in Australia, who relished especially the honey ants, which they call yarumpa.
We go hunting for honey ants and we look for bush turkey.
Honey ants store nectar in their bodies to sustain their colony during times of drought.