Technomyrmex albipes - white-footed ant tending to a mealybug (Pseudococcidae) for honeydew. 

Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
Lasius umbratus with mealybugs.

Vermillion River Observatory, Illinois, USA
Lasius umbratus with mealybugs. 

Vermillion River Observatory, Illinois, USA
Monomorium floricola ranks among the most traveled of all ants.  This diminutive species has spread with human commerce to nearly every lowland tropical region.  Here, a worker tends to a mealybug in Panama.

Isla Contadora, Panama
Monomorium floricola ranks among the most traveled of all ants.  This diminutive species has spread with human commerce to nearly every lowland tropical region.  Here, a worker tends to a mealybug in Panama.

Isla Contadora, Panama
Monomorium floricola ranks among the most traveled of all ants.  This diminutive species has spread with human commerce to nearly every lowland tropical region.  Here, a worker tends to a mealybug in Panama.

Isla Contadora, Panama
Monomorium floricola tending a mealybug.

Isla Contadora, Panama
Monomorium floricola ranks among the most traveled of all ants.  This diminutive species has spread with human commerce to nearly every lowland tropical region.  Here, a worker tends to a mealybug in Panama.

Isla Contadora, Panama
Lasius umbratus with mealybugs.

Vermillion River Observatory, Illinois, USA
Lasius umbratus with mealybugs. 

Vermillion River Observatory, Illinois, USA
Lasius umbratus with mealybugs.

Vermillion River Observatory, Illinois, USA
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