what is the symbiotic relationship between ants and aphids?
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These relationships are mainly mutualistic. An example of this type of relationship is between aphids and several ant species. The aphids provide honeydew to the ants while the ants will take the aphids into their nests at night to protect them from predators and escort them back to a plant the next morning.
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Worms and ants are more related because spiders contain hair and ants do not. Worms do not contain hair as well.
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There are five main symbiotic relationships: mutualism, commensalism, predation, parasitism, and competition.
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It sometimes causes leaf drop in aspen by feeding on the apical twigs and developing leaves (Furniss and Carolin 1977). Aphid abundance may be positively affected by ants. Some ant species protect aphids and "milk" them for the excess sugars (honeydew) they secrete.
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Control Methods Termites and ants are natural enemies. Ant and termite colonies often turn hostile upon encountering one another. Ants have been known to raid termite colonies and consume termites as a source of food.
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Red imported fire ants go to flower beds looking for food. Their feeding can harm delicate plants, and red ants may protect insect pests, such as aphids that secrete honeydew, a sweet substance ants like to eat. ... Their nesting may also damage plants, lawns and electrical fixtures.
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Although ants are a nuisance, they do not actually cause any harm to potted plants. Ants are attracted to the sweet honeydew-esque excretions left by other pests that reside in the soil, such as aphids and mealybugs; fire ants like to make nests in potted plants and hide in the plants' foliage.
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Ants attack and defend themselves by biting and, in many species, by stinging, often injecting or spraying chemicals, such as formic acid in the case of formicine ants, alkaloids and piperidines in fire ants, and a variety of protein components in other ants.
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So why do ants climb trees? ... Ants love to feed on honeydew. To protect their food source, ants will “farm” aphids and scale insects in trees. Ants will protect scales and aphids from natural predators and move pests to better food sources or more favorable microclimates to maximize honeydew production.
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Ants are insects, which are part of the animal kingdom.
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Predation is a symbiotic relationship in which one species survives on costuming the other species. The species that consume or win is the predator and the species that is eaten up is the prey.
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Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.
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Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers The ants are decomposers because they eat old food scraps so they can decompose. Spiders, worms, and other ants will often eat ants. Lichen is a common, symbiotic organism that manufactures food by photosynthesis.
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(Be careful not to damage the hydrangea itself.) ... If you see ants on your hydrangea leaves, small, green aphids are probably around. They like to feed on a sticky substance, honeydew, produced by the ants.
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They feed on the honeydew that's left by aphids and mealybugs as these pests dine on other plants. The citronella ants will gather aphids in groups so they can eat the honeydew left when they eat the roots of plants.
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The plant and the insect co-evolved; that is, they developed in intimate connection with each other. This is called an obligate mutualism in which if one were to disappear, the other would follow the same path. Originally it was a relationship of exploitation, with the moth larvae feeding on the seeds of the yucca.
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Although ants are attracted to sugar, that's not the only thing that attracts them. Ants are like us in many ways (they have societies, they wage wars, they farm), including the fact that they're omnivores.