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Working together by Minghui Yuan, China. Minghui had noticed green tree ants in the Xishuangbanna tropical botanical garden in Yunnan province, China, and was fascinated by their behaviour. Ferocious by nature, these ants are good at catching all kinds of insects and one morning Minghui noticed a group working together to restrain a green katydid. These ants don’t always kill: they have been observed ‘farming’ some insects, including leaf hoppers. The ants offer leaf hoppers protection from predators and parasites so that they can feed on the sweet sap the leaf hoppers excrete. (Photo by Minghui Yuan/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021)
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