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FORMICIDAE (ants)

Date:	16 August 1975
Location:	Surrey, England
State:	Imago
Record Summary:	Ants tending aphid colony on pine shoot. The ants have protected the aphids with a layer of debris.

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Aphid colony, on pine shoot, that ants have protected with debris

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