I've seen ant and pitcher plant but I didn't know that they can work together. Last July, there's a flower festival in Putrajaya and I saw all kinds of flowers and of course pitcher plants. Surprisingly, there wasn't any weird smell emanated from them. Well, I guess they haven't had their meals yet. If they did, they'll produce some kind of enzyme to drown and digest the insects.
The next day, I watched a discovery about ants and it's indeed an exciting creature of God. There are 10 000 species of ants and another 10 000 more are waiting to be discovered. The ants body parts are divided into 3 sections; the head, abdomen and tail. An ant have 3 pairs of legs attached to its abdomen. Surprisingly, the spincer are multipurpose as ants can use them as scissors, to pick up food or as defense. The antenna can detect chemicals so it is easy to find ants' way home after a long day of labour. I learned about the way they feed like some kind of a "kiss" since they always eat their food in a form of fluid.
Apart from that, the ants have their own professional job. The workers or army usually sterile female that tends to the household chores from taking care of the eggs until those that provide food for the colony. The Queen's job is to lay eggs while the male ants have one sole purpose; that is to mate with the future Queen. After that, they died and a new colony is born.
When I Google about these two I found out that they have mutual interactions. The Camponotus sp. ants obtain food and nesting sites while preventing the accumulation of excess prey in Nepenthes bicalcarata.
The ant systematic community are so fascinating that I sometimes wonder even if small creatures can live together why not us? The answers are within ourselves.
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