Ants run secret farms on English oak trees, photographer discovers

Brown ants herd and milk giant pale aphids, building barns for them from beetle exoskeletonBritain has a new farmed animal, which is kept in barns, milked and moved between high and low pastures - but not by humans.The giant pale aphid, Stomaphis wojciechowskii, has lived undiscovered for thousands of years on English oak trees, where it has been looked after by brown ants. Continue reading...