<![CDATA[An Azteca ant inside her brood nest in a hollow Cecropia tree stem.]]>An Azteca ant inside her brood nest in a hollow Cecropia tree stem.

What she is holding is not an egg or a larva (those are the lumpy things with the interior dark patch) but a food body produced by the tree specifically to feed the ants, as they protect the tree from caterpillars. Colombia.

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