TIL some species of ants farm aphids like we do cows
TIL some species of ants farm aphids like we do cows
www.westcoastseeds.com Farmer ants and their aphid herds
Several species of ants have a special symbiotic relationship with aphids- they farm them! Aphids feed primarily on the sap from plants and secrete a liquid called honeydew. This secretion is very sugar-rich, and quite favoured by ants as a food source. As a result, a system has been hashed out by t...
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What the hell is this title? Isn't the whole article describing the ant-aphid relationship while emphatizing that we can't really compare it in human terms?
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