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Ants attend to the treehopper for its
A colony of globular scale insects providing sweet
Large black ant. Likes to feed on honeydew ...
I saw this beautiful butterfly in the drive through at
'honeydew'. Ants are often observed ...
Aconophora sp probably compressa. Golden carpenter ants protect them and feed ...
Ants feeding on planthopper honeydew. an ...
. The adults are pollinators, eating necter and aphid "
Carpenter ants like honeydew from aphids, ...
ants attending them. The ants are feeding on the '
These scales look like Tortoise shells. The ants "farm" them for the
The fungus in photo 3 (scorias spongiosa) grows only on beech trees from the ...
Ants farming aphids on a Birdoc plant. Aphids produce
Brown treehoppers with lighter markings on their dorsal surfaces.
I saw some large ants visiting them, presumably to get their
the honeydew excreted by the nymphs on the ...
honeydew from the healthy aphids they ...
The aphid was about 4mm long and the biggest one I have ever seen!
This is the initial stage of this fungus that grows exclusively on the
This species of leafhopper produces a
farmed by ants, as honeydews. The only ...
Adults eat nectar and honeydew. Larvae: ...
since scales produce honeydew which feeds ...
Small white glob on branchlet. Approx 5mm diameter. Has liquid or perhaps
(Lasius niger) protecting and caring for the lice which in return can harvest ...
