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ubi on Nostr: nprofile1q…rpfuj Macaranga trees go even further than extra floral nectaries, they ...

Macaranga trees go even further than extra floral nectaries, they even have tunnels in their stem that the ants use as highways and nesting sites. I remember spliting some small ones open to photograph the queens inside. The photo must be buried somewhere in my external hard disk.

Tropical foresters hate the tree once it grows large, they're incredibly hard to cut down since you have to deal with thousands of angry ants.