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Ant Lifestyles (?)

Fungus growing ants

Behavior

Foraging
Nest Building
- Weaver Ants
Nestmate Recognition
Trophallaxis (also topic under Feeding in Ants, Diet(?)) P

Ecology

Ant-Plant Relationships

(a tip of the hat to The Ants Chapter 14) for the following topic headings.

Ants protect plants
Plants shelter ants: Myrmecophytes
Ant Gardens
Bromeliads
Plants feed the ants: food bodies
Plants feed ants: Extrafloral Nectaries
Ants feed plants: Myrmecotrophy
Ants disperse plants: Myrmecochory
Ants pollinate flowers (sparingly)
Ants prune and weed

There was an existing starter page on this topic: Ants and Plants

Predation

Diversity and Community

Ant Diversity Studies

Endosymbionts and Endoparasites

Ants can be hosts to a variety of organisms that can live within their bodies. Depending on the organism, these can be symbiotic or parasitic interactions. Their influence may be minor and seemingly inconsequential. In other cases their presence alters the ants's morphology, behavior or metabolism and may even result in the individual's death.