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Scale insects

Photo by Olivia Chee
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Description:

Scale insects (cluster of white) and their ant buddies.

When I placed the ruler next to the scale insects, the ants rushed onto it. They may have been trying to defend the scale insects?

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The Biodiversity of Singapore
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PublishedMarch 15, 2013

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