Treehoppers Transfer Parental Care to Ants: A New Benefit of Mutualism
- 29 April 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 220 (4596) , 532-533
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.220.4596.532
Abstract
Female treehoppers (Publilia reticulata Van Duzee) modify their parental care behavior in the presence of ants. Females with untended young remain with their original brood, but females from ant-tended colonies readily desert their first brood and produce additional clutches. Care by female treehoppers, in the absence of ants, increases the probability that a colony will produce some survivors, but ant attendance greatly increases the number of surviving nymphs.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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