A fluid role in ant society as adults give larvae ‘milk’ from pupae

A fluid role in ant society as adults give larvae ‘milk’ from pupae

Parental-care behaviours include mammalian lactation to provide milk for offspring. The discovery that adult ants harvest nutritious fluid from pupae and give larvae this fluid reveals social feeding that aids colony success. Moulting fluid from ant pupae is a food source that aids colony success. C...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature (London) 2022-12, Vol.612 (7940), p.405-406
Hauptverfasser: d’Ettorre, Patrizia, Tsuji, Kazuki
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Sprache:eng
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Animals
Ants
Humanities and Social Sciences
Larva
Milk
multidisciplinary
News And Views
Pupa
Science
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Zusammenfassung:Parental-care behaviours include mammalian lactation to provide milk for offspring. The discovery that adult ants harvest nutritious fluid from pupae and give larvae this fluid reveals social feeding that aids colony success. Moulting fluid from ant pupae is a food source that aids colony success. Close up of a nest of Ooceraea biroi clonal raider ants with workers, pupae, and young larvae
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/d41586-022-03722-4