Moth



Blackwell Publishing
Coevolution

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The advantage to lycaenid caterpillars of mutualism with ants is probably that

a) The ants protect the caterpillars from parasitic wasps

b) The ants prevent competing insects from taking the food that the caterpillars eat

c) The ants provide food, in the form of "honeydew", for the caterpillars

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