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Is this what they call "ant mutualism"? These ants were tending to the aphids on the new shoot of the lime tree. Note there is a dent on the gaster of one of the ants. Also, besides the brown aphids, there were black ones too.
Related spotting: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/950... A video on the jerking black aphids: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE8MBf8Io...
Spotted on Mar 14, 2012
Submitted on Mar 14, 2012
5 Comments
Thanks for your nice comments. LOL - the ant did look as if it was making a head count....
The video was a great addition!
Nice Video, almost looked like the Ant was counting the aphids or encouraging them. Good work!
And thank you too for your comments.
Very nice series, and thanks for video, ,