When Hera discovered his infidelity, she sent a pestilence to the island and the population died out rapidly, until Aeacus, son of Zeus and Aegina, asked Zeus to create for him a people as numerous as the creatures he saw toiling industriously in the temple.  
They came from the island of Aegina, which was named after the maiden whom Zeus had loved.  When Hera discovered his infidelity, she sent a pestilence to the island and the population died out rapidly, until Aeacus, son of Zeus and Aegina, asked Zeus to create for him a people as numerous as the creatures he saw toiling industriously in the temple.  FTP, what was the name given to these people, who were to gain more fame in the Trojan War fighting under Achilles, and who take their name from the Greek word for "ant"?
They came from the island of Aegina, which was named after the maiden whom Zeus had loved.  
Myrmidons