The remarkable collaboration between bees or ants and tree hoppers
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Tree hoppers are very small creatures, like our aphids, on tropical trees. They feed on the sap from the branches of the trees.In the Amazon rainforest, what is really remarkable, they get the protection of ants or bees. Why do they do that and generously, too?
They have impressive shapes.They look like tiny aliens.
In the winter, the female tree-hoppers lay hundreds of eggs on the leaves of a tree or shrub.They then carefully selected them.
As often happens, these eggs form into tiny larvae.
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