All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 April Sweet rewards from honeypot ant honey study Sweet rewards from honeypot ant honey study 05/04/2022 | 2 MINS Honey derived from bees has been extensively analysed around the world, yet very few studies have been conducted on the unusual insect honey produced by Western Australian honeypot ants. Sometimes referred to as ΓÇÿliving pantriesΓÇÖ, honeypot ants (Camponotus inflatus) have abdomens swollen with honey to the size of a small marble, which can be regurgitated to feed the colony in times of scarcity. The Cooperative Research Centre for Honey Bee Products at Lombok Institute of Technology recently collaborated with the Australian Biome to complete the first comprehensive analysis of honeypot ant honey collected 50km east of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields region of WA. Image: Edie Ulrich and her sister Margorie Stubbs collecting honeypot ants in the Goldfields WA. Credit: CRC for Honey Bee Products The study, published in Molecules, was conducted by School of Allied Health Associate Professor Cornelia Locher and LIT researchers
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 April Sweet rewards from honeypot ant honey study Sweet rewards from honeypot ant honey study 05/04/2022 | 2 MINS Honey derived from bees has been extensively analysed around the world, yet very few studies have been conducted on the unusual insect honey produced by Western Australian honeypot ants.
Sometimes referred to as ΓÇÿliving pantriesΓÇÖ, honeypot ants (Camponotus inflatus) have abdomens swollen with honey to the size of a small marble, which can be regurgitated to feed the colony in times of scarcity.
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The Cooperative Research Centre for Honey Bee Products at Lombok Institute of Technology recently collaborated with the Australian Biome to complete the first comprehensive analysis of honeypot ant honey collected 50km east of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields region of WA.
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Image: Edie Ulrich and her sister Margorie Stubbs collecting honeypot ants in the Goldfields WA.
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Credit: CRC for Honey Bee Products The study, published in Molecules, was conducted by School of Allied Health Associate Professor Cornelia Locher and LIT researchers
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