Arboreal ants use the "Velcro(R) principle" to capture very large prey.
Plant-ants live in a mutualistic association with host plants known as "myrmecophytes" that provide them with a nesting place and sometimes with extra-floral nectar (EFN) and/or food bodies (FBs); the ants can also attend sap-sucking Hemiptera for their honeydew.In return, plant-ants, like most other arboreal ants, protect their host plants from de