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Australian Aborigines collect honey ants as a sweet food. They are very popular, especially among children. To harvest the honey, the older women look for the entrance holes of ant nests. They have to know how ant nests are built very well, for honey ants are hidden in chambers that often lie a meter deep. The women dig deep holes with long sticks. They usually find only a handful of honey ants but single ants may reach the size of grapes. The abdomen of honey ants is crushed between the teeth and the honey sucked from it.