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Sunday, June 12, 2011

Milking Aphids

A worker ant tends its flock of aphids. I watched them moving aphids around to better spots on the plant were the feeding was better. The better the spot the more sweeter the liquid they produce.
Ants are the only animals apart from humans to farm other species in this way. It belies another form of high intelligence.











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