Ants farming aphids on Elderberry
Channel: Sean Anderson
Date: 2015-03-16

This was filmed at our Trail A Stop 440m at our Woodlands Trail and Park site here in Plaquemines Parish.  This bottomland hardwood forest is repleate with elderberry (Sambucus canadensis).  On this, these large black ants were farming a "herd" of aphids for their homeydew.