to infiltrate ant nests, usually to prey on food supplies or on the ants themselves. Aribates javensis, a species of oribatid mite, is an obligate myrmecophile that lives in ant nests. These mites are cared for by their ant hosts in exchange for eating litter and bacteria in the nest.

Ant-plant interactions

Ant-plant interactions are geographically widespread, with hundreds of species of myrmecophytic plants in several families, including the Leguminosae, Euphorbiaceae,

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