Aphid BATTLE: Ant-Aphid Mutualism

One of the coolest things about insects are mutualisms, or relationships between two species where both partners benefit. Ant-aphid mutualisms are especially interesting. Ants "farm" aphids, protecting them from predators like lacewing larvae in exchange for a food resource aphids excrete called honeydew. Here, the ants win, the aphids survive, and the honeydew keeps flowing.

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