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Talking Caterpillars Links: just ants and ant mutualisms
Aphids Are a Tough Bug to Fight Since Many Come With Bodyguards, from ABC News, August 28, 2000. Details how ants protect aphids and how that affects attempts to control aphid populations.
Ants of Arizona: Hobbyist web site, with nice photos of Crematogaster opuntiae.
The classic ant/plant mutualism, Azteca and Cecropia, from Cindy Sagers of the University of Arkansas
Another web site on Cecropia by John T. Longino, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA
Lecture
notes on "Non-Human Farmers: Ants, Termites, and Beetles"
by Paul Gepts, © L. Saxe and P. Gepts, 2002, Department of Agronomy
and Range Science, University of California, Davis
Good info
on ant mutualisms, by Larry Rockwood, of George Mason University
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