Ants are Shown on the Bud and Fruits of a Passionflower (IMAGE)

University of Edinburgh

Ants are Shown on the Bud and Fruits of a Passionflower

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Ants are shown on bud and fruits of a passionflower following a study which found that flowering crops such as beans, cotton and passionfruit offer their sweetest nectar to recruit colonizing ants -- their strategy balances their need for defense and to reproduce.

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Nora Villamil-Buenrostro

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