The Caterpillar's Song: how the larvae of Alcon Blue butterfly convince ants to become their caretakershttp://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2014/04/18/butterflies-behaving-like-cuckoos-2/ …
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@OtherSociology workers will actually drop everything to attend to those caterpillars as the highest priority! (2/2)
@The_Episiarch Not knowing much on social insects other than ants & bees I wouldn't have thought about butterflies in this way. Great stuff!
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@OtherSociology two more astonishing things - bc ants are so successful, there are many spp. that have evolved to be such resident of (1)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@OtherSociology ant colonies. There are also beetles that exploit ant colonies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_nest_beetle … & a frog that also hides in (2)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@OtherSociology ant colonies http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0081950 … furthermore, a study published a few yrs ago show that there are hundreds of (3)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@OtherSociology spp. that assoc & travel w/army ants: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2010/11/30/an-entire-world-follows-the-march-of-the-army-ants/ … Now, the second astonishing thing - even though it seems (4)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@OtherSociology the blue butterfly caterpillar is safely tucked away in the ant colony, they do have a dedicated foe which specialise on (5)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@OtherSociology them - a parasitoid wasp that somehow can detect the presence of the caterpillar even though it is deep underground. The (6)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@OtherSociology wasp infiltrates into the ant colony & release a chemical that send the ants into an in-fighting frenzy while it picks (7)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@OtherSociology out suitable host in which she will lay her eggs: http://disciplinas.stoa.usp.br/pluginfile.php/121044/mod_resource/content/1/Paper_1_LEF5825%20Parasitoid%20warfare.pdf … (8/end) -
@The_Episiarch This is all fascinating stuff! Thank you. What an amazing system. It's the Inception of parasites & insect sentinels.
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