OUT OF RIDER HAGGARD’S SHE. “In Teleutomyrmex schneideri…not only has the entire worker caste been eliminated, but the brain, glands and feeding apparatus have also been reduced. The parasitic Teleutomyrmex queen spends much of her life riding on the back of the host queen while being fed by the workers of the host species.” If this was a horror movie you would not believe it.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/29774232?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022