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Some ants turn their own bodies into food stores

The pantry is alive Some ants store liquid food inside their own bodies. Their swollen abdomens turn living workers into the colony’s food reserves.1/3
A colony’s food reserve can be alive: some ants store liquid food in their own enlarged bodies.
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  1. The pantry is alive

    Some ants store liquid food inside their own bodies. Their swollen abdomens turn living workers into the colony’s food reserves.

  2. These workers hang from the ceiling

    Storage workers cling to the roof of a nest chamber. Other workers bring them food, filling the enlarged crop inside the abdomen.

  3. One colony. Different jobs.

    Some workers collect the food; others store it. The colony’s supply is held in the bodies of its own workers.

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