Not that you can tell from this photo, but these ants move faster than any you will find in the States. You need not wait more than 1 minute for them to find any kind of food you have in their vicinity (they really like cat food) and will clear the area of it in under 5 minutes, taking it to their nest which I suspect is actually deeply embedded in the wall of our veranda. At one point on my way home I came across a plant whose flowers resembeled small roses, and that just happened to have some nice seeds comming from one of the buds. I brought them home and planted them, and low and behold I have grown an aphid magnet! To the ants' delight. Slowly but surely the sticky residue from my resident parasites is turning all my nice white rocks green. I think this plant is about to go bye bye.
