An Azteca ant inside her brood nest in a hollow Cecropia tree stem.
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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.
#Ants #Azteca #Ecology #Evolution #Cecropia #Insects

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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.
#Ants #Azteca #Ecology #Evolution #Cecropia #Insects
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