Sentences with phrase «farm aphids»

Symbiotic relationships occur on a spectrum from parasitism (one species benefits at the expense of the other, such as a tick that sucks its host's blood) to mutualism (both organisms benefit, like when certain ants farm aphids for their honeydew while in return protecting them from predators).

The system has become a lustfully greedy monster anaconda itself to squeeze the life out of every family that comes near it coils... like ants farming aphids it fattens the family for every bit of life blood it can consume from them.

Not exact matches

Waging war is just one of the habits that ants share with humans: Many species live in large, well - organized societies, and others take slaves, herd aphids like cattle, and raise fungi for food in underground farms.

A. Ester and his colleagues at the Research Station for Arable Farming and Field Production of Vegetables in Lelystad, the Netherlands, devised experiments to determine the effect of (E)- beta - farnesene on aphids.