Florida Carpenter Ant

Description:

From an entomologist friend, Fred Santana: The ants are Florida carpenter ants, Camponotus floridanus, and they are not going after the eggs, which are layed by sulphur butterflies. Carpenter ants are sweet feeding ants, so either there are some nectaries in the flowers, or there are some tiny aphids living in the flowers you don't see, providing honeydew, I recently had a small colony of aphids on the seed pods of my Senna didymobotrya, which were wiped out by an interesting lady beetle, Olla v-nigrum.

Habitat:

School Garden: Laurel Nokomis School