Formica fusca
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Formica fusca is a black-colored ant commonly found throughout Europe as well as parts of southern Asia and Africa. It has the common names silky ant or dusky ant. The range within the palaearctic reg
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Formica fusca head
Mutualistic Formica fusca ants tending a herd of mealybugs
Honeydew (secretion)
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Honeydew is a sugar-rich sticky liquid that is secreted by aphids, some scale insects, many other true bugs, and some other insects as they feed on plant sap. When their mouthpart penetrates the phloe
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…rotten tree stumps or under stones in clearcut areas and along woodland borders and hedgerows. The species also often occurs in urban areas, feeding on honeydew secreted by the aphids found on weeds. Colonies are facultatively polygynous (though weakly so, with a mean number of queen of 3.09); though the queens…
An aphid produces honeydew for an ant in an example of mutualistic symbiosis.
Honeydew drops on leaves
Bald-faced hornet sips honeydew from a Disholcaspis quercusmamma gall covered by sooty mold
Honeydew puddle under a tree