What in the world is an ant cow?
The ant cow’s world is very small. The little creature can squat on the head of a pin and usually her color is leafy green. From this you can guess that she is not related to Brown Bessy and the other big cows that graze in the meadow. But there are reasons why we call her a cow. Ants, of course, live in a tiny world and the idea of ants keeping regular barn¬yard cows seem ridiculous. Nevertheless, some ants really do keep cows of a sort. Naturally their cows are scaled down to an ant sized world. They do not give milk, cheese and butter but instead, they give honeydew. The ant cows ooze this sweet, sticky stuff and the ants who own them love to lick it from their bodies. The little green honeydew cows are kept by cornfield ants. And nests of cornfield ants are found here and there all over our land. This is a true story of the miniature world of insects. The cornfield ants are shiny brown insects and hundreds of .them live together in each busy nest. Their leafy¬ green cows are insect
