Honeypot ant

Key facts

• Honeypot ant lives in Australia, United States, and Mexico.
• Group: Insects and bugs.
• It weighs about 30 mg.
• A typical adult is about 1 cm (0.394 in) long.
• It lives about 1 year.
• Diet: omnivore.
• Habitat: desert.
• Honeypot ants store sugary food inside the round, swollen bodies of certain workers that hang from the nest ceiling.