Weaver ants
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Weaver Ants: Facts, Defence Strategies, Habitat
All you need to know about these social insects
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Nest of Deception: When Spiders Mimic Weaver Ants
Numerous species of spiders trick weaver ants by mimicking their appearance and behaviour. They steal their identity and larvae, and sometimes even kill and eat them up
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Canopy Colonisers: Battles of the Weaver Ant Armies
Weaver ants display great aggression towards nearly any visitors to their territory, but will actively look after farms of sap-sucking insects to harvest honeydew to meet their energy needs
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Weaver Ants: Leafy Kingdoms and New Empires
A single queen ant gives rise to a new colony of ants whose workers weave leaves to make nests spanning multiple trees, to house hundreds of thousands of colony-mates
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