of their gaster as they fall.

Parasitism

In ants, the gaster is the site for certain endoparasites including several species of the nematode families mermithidae and tetradonematidae. Certain mermithidaen that inhabit ant hosts only inhabit a single species or genus while others also target insects other than ants. These endoparasites have been parasitizing ants for 20-30 million

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