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Ant vs. Myrmecocystus mexicanus

Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Myrmecocystus mexicanus is a species of ant in the genus Myrmecocystus, which is one of the six genera that bear the common name "honey ant" or "honeypot ant", due to curious behavior where some of the workers will swell with liquid food until they become immobile and hang from the ceilings of nest chambers, acting as living food storage for the colony.

Ant

Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.

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Ant colony

An ant colony is a population of ants, typically from a single species, capable of maintaining their complete lifecycle.

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Bee

Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey.

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Caste

A caste is a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification: a caste system.

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Eusociality (Greek εὖ eu "good" and social) is the highest level of organization of sociality.

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Honeypot ant

Honeypot ants, also called honey ants, are ants which have specialized workers (repletes, plerergates, or rotunds) that consume large amounts of food to the point that their abdomens swell enormously.

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Insect

Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.

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Myrmecocystus

Myrmecocystus (from Koine Greek μυρμήκιον, meaning "ant", and κύστις, meaning "bladder" or "sac") is a North American genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Nuptial flight

Nuptial flight is an important phase in the reproduction of most ant, termite, and some bee species.

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Queen ant

A queen ant (formally known as a gyne) is an adult, reproducing female ant in an ant colony; she is usually the mother of all the other ants in that colony.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Wasp

A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder.

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