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
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	631/181 631/601 631/601/18 Animals Ants Humanities and Social Sciences Larva Milk multidisciplinary News And Views Pupa Science
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