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Preventing nest flooding with bamboo sap
https://blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2023/08/02/preventing-nest-flooding-with-bamboo-sap/
Some tree-dwelling ants are known to use flood defences to prevent flooding of their nests. In the recent paper “Bamboo sap ejection from the nests of Tetraponera binghami (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Pseudomyrmecinae) and the role of