In the Wild
An Australian naturalist's log
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Imperial Blue butterfly caterpillar
A caterpillar of the Imperial Blue butterfly (
Jalmenus evagoras
) is here being not attacked but tended and protected by
Iridomyrmex
ants, drunk on the caterpillar's secretions.
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