SEVERAL types of ant keep aphids, small pear-shaped insects, which they "milk" to get the sweet fluid aphids excrete after feeding on root and leaf sap.
The ants protect their aphids - they carry them from one plant to the next and stroke them gently with their antennae to get them to release droplets of the liquid, called honeydew. - bigsiteofamazingfacts.com; wikipedia.org
How ants protect aphids
SEVERAL types of ant keep aphids, small pear-shaped insects, which they "milk" to get the sweet fluid aphids excrete after feeding on root and leaf sap.
The ants protect their aphids - they carry them from one plant to the next and stroke them gently with their antennae to get them to release droplets of the liquid, called honeydew. - bigsiteofamazingfacts.com; wikipedia.org