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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@The_Episiarch "The ants will feed the adopted larvae in preference to their own, & the ant colony will produce fewer offspring." Amazing!2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@OtherSociology workers will actually drop everything to attend to those caterpillars as the highest priority! (2/2)3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@The_Episiarch Not knowing much on social insects other than ants & bees I wouldn't have thought about butterflies in this way. Great stuff!8 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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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)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@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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