A new study from Caltech explores the remarkable way a SoCal beetle infiltrates the colonies of the ant that runs the show in the Angeles National Forest — and what it can tell us about interdependent relationships in nature.
The finding has implications outside the insect kingdom. It provides a basis for “entrenchment,” Parker said. In other words, once an intimate symbiotic relationship forms — in which at least one organism depends on another for survival — it’s locked in. There’s no going back.
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