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      Honeypot ants carry their community’s emergency food supply on their backs. Worker ants feed honeypots nectar until their abdomens expand with golden, sugary liquid. When food is scarce, they will rely on their engorged neighbors’ regurgitated reserves.

      The ants, whose bulbous backsides can swell to the size of a grape, are such an important resource that other colonies will attack to steal them.