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... larvae feast on ant eggs and ant larvae . Not content with raiding this larder , the parasites also mimic the food - begging behavior of ant larvae . They tap a worker ant's mandibles with their own mouthparts and so trigger ...
... larvae feast on ant eggs and ant larvae . Not content with raiding this larder , the parasites also mimic the food - begging behavior of ant larvae . They tap a worker ant's mandibles with their own mouthparts and so trigger ...
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... larvae while permitting other caterpillars to retain their keepers . In order to create a group of untended larvae , they placed a sticky ring of Tanglefoot about the base of a plant on which one or more caterpillars were feeding . Ants ...
... larvae while permitting other caterpillars to retain their keepers . In order to create a group of untended larvae , they placed a sticky ring of Tanglefoot about the base of a plant on which one or more caterpillars were feeding . Ants ...
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... larva . ( Bottom ) An ant attacks a braconid wasp parasitoid that could de- stroy the larva . Photo- graphs by Naomi Pierce and Paul Mead . Larvae without Ants Larvae with Ant Guards Percentage Percentage Site Parasitized Sample Size ...
... larva . ( Bottom ) An ant attacks a braconid wasp parasitoid that could de- stroy the larva . Photo- graphs by Naomi Pierce and Paul Mead . Larvae without Ants Larvae with Ant Guards Percentage Percentage Site Parasitized Sample Size ...
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NATURAL SELECTION | 5 |
Alternative Hypotheses | 11 |
Experimental Tests of Evolutionary Predictions | 17 |
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