Scientific Name:  genus: Neivamyrmex
Order:  Hymenoptera
Family:  Formicidae
Diet:  They eat liquid nectar of plants and ?juice of animals.?
Vegetation Association:   Nests are underground where they may coexist with roaches, beetles, crickets and silverfish. 
Predators:  They are preyed upon by lizards and birds. 
Life Stages:  Honey pot ants hatch from eggs and go through many larval stages before becoming adults.  Mating occurs at specific times of the year in mating swarms.  One female will store the sperm of several males for the lifetime of her colony, which may be as long as 20 years.
Notes:  Members of the colony will store liquid food in their engorged gasters (the part of the abdomen behind the waist) for other members to use as needed.  Multiple new queens will get together to form colonies underground.  By working together they can get underground faster and escape heat as well as predators.  The queens of these colonies are one of the longest living insects known to exist.
Photo:  To be added.

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