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Ants will vigorously attack invading insects that threaten a colony’s territory or food sources. These defensive tactics can successfully deter even flying insects, like wasps. However, ants do not attack all insects within their territory. For example, riodinid caterpillars commonly live among South American ants. These caterpillars are a favorite pray of wasps, but they also produce secretions the ants feed on.
Riodinid caterpillars do not threaten South American ant’s territory or food sources.
Riodinid caterpillars are less likely to be preyed on by wasps when the caterpillars live among ants compared to those caterpillars that don’t live among ants.
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We don’t know anything about the chemical makeup of the caterpillar’s secretions. We only know that the ants consume the secretions as food.
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We don’t know anything about ants that live elsewhere other than South America. The South American ants are only used as one example.
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We don’t know whether the riodinid caterpillar is the only exception. There could be other kinds of inspects the ants do not attack.
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We don’t know if wasps and South American ants are the only insects that use riodinid caterpillars as a food source.
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Since the ants’ attacks can effectively deter wasps, riodinid caterpillars living among ant colonies are probably less likely to be successfully preyed upon by wasps.