Comment on myrmecology
brown567@sh.itjust.works 23 hours agoLacerate their exoskeleton? Do you have a source for that? According to Wikipedia, the honeydew is excreted from the aphids’ anus and happens even when the ants aren’t involved en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphid#Ant_mutualism
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 22 hours ago
I coulda sworn I’ve read somewhere that they make a light incision to get to the honeydew, but it could be a false memory. I’m not gonna go looking for where I read that, but I’ll accept “they eat ass” as a correct answer.