Deep inside an ant nest, some of the youngest members are primed to die for the group. When infection strikes, these baby ...

In the Asian tropics, a conspicuous radiation of Macaranga plants is inhabited by obligately associated Crematogaster ants tending Coccus (Coccidae) scale insects, forming a tripartite symbiosis.

Earlier this week, one of my neighbors told me that her Meyer lemon tree has had a bad infestation of scale insects for several years and that all of her attempts to eradicate the pests had failed. I ...

Journal of Tropical Ecology, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Jul., 1998), pp. 427-443 (17 pages) Myrmecophytic species of the Paleotropical plant genus Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae) have hollow stems that are almost ...