No, we didn't add one of those clear boxes full of ants to our household menagerie, but I did find the ants themselves farming aphids on my melon vines! I have heard of this symbiotic relationship between ants and aphids but have never knowingly witnessed it. The aphids produce honeydew, which the ants eat. The ants protect and herd or move the aphids to the juiciest parts of the plant, then stroke the aphids to "milk" them to produce honeydew. This is information from searching the net. Most of the articles were enthusiastic but not very scientific, and give the same information I just gave you. The end point of all the articles was how to treat the garden plants to make them not good for ant farming. The result is probably from my chosen search terms "ants and aphids". Ah, add "symbiotic" and you at least get to a Brittanica article eventually.

Ants tending aphids on a melon vine