ant cow
(plural: ‘ant cows‘)
ants (black) caring for the ant cows (cream colour)
a kind of insect – aphid – very small, as small as a pin-head – 0.08 inch (2 mm) to about 1 inch (25 mm); lives on (sucks) juice (sap) from plant stems; found all over the world,
an ant milking an ant cow (the white spot is the honey the ants eat)
Special Features
Ants keep these ant cows in their nests for the honeydew, a kind of sweet liquid these ant cows produce (just like people keeping cows for their milk).
Ant cows are a garden pest, eating, rather drinking away, the plants in our gardens and farms.
In the second video below, you will hear the word ‘ant cow’ and about ‘ant cows’ between the tape/video readings 6:00 and 7:20. Therefore, viewers are requested to watch the video patiently through out. All the Best.
Return to “aphid“.
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