Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: bug id needed, 1 by jamminspoons

jamminspoons wrote:
The mystery continues....I previously posted that they were back, but on my bleeding heart. I was wrong, it is still on my red passion vine. This time I saw some small black ants all around the "beads", There were no signs of aphids, mealy bugs, or scale. I could only find the beads on the seams of petals. I don't see any damage to the leaves or stems. hmmmm....
I've got the buds in a glass jar, and will see if anything crawls out of it.