A worker ant (Technomyrmex difficilis) tending aphids. Orlando, Florida, USA - Alex Wild Photography - Insect Photography - Insect Pictures

Symbioses

Images of animals that cooperate or live with ants to the benefit of both.

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Honeydew from root aphids (Aphidae: Eriosomatinae) is an important part of the diet of the subterranean ant Lasius nearcticus.

South Bristol, New York, USA

Melissotarsus may be the only lineage besides humans to raise other animals for meat. Here, workers tend to domesticated scale insects inside the nest galleries.

Kibale Forest, Uganda

Melissotarsus weissi nest in tree bark with symbiotic diaspidid scale insects.

Kibale Forest, Uganda

Odontomachus bauri. Trap-jaw ants are normally thought of as predators, but they also tend honeydew-producing insects.

Gamboa, Panama

Argentine ants (Linepithema humile tending scale insects on an orange tree in suburban California.

Davis, California, USA

A worker ant (Technomyrmex difficilis) tending aphids.

Orlando, Florida, USA

Formica integroides worker tending pine aphids. The ants obtain a large portion of their energy from symbiotic relationships with hemipterans such as these aphids.

Sagehen Creek, California, USA

Formica montana tending Publilia treehopper nymphs for honeydew.

Lake Forest, Illinois, USA

A Nylanderia worker tends to a scale insect for honeydew.

Morretes, Paraná, Brazil

A worker ant (Technomyrmex difficilis) tending aphids.

Orlando, Florida, USA

A worker ant (Technomyrmex difficilis) tending aphids.

Orlando, Florida, USA

A worker ant (Technomyrmex difficilis) tending aphids.

Orlando, Florida, USA

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Keywords: aphids honeydew homoptera hemiptera ecology technomyrmex

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