What kind of relationship is between ants and aphids?

Answer 1

Aphids are predatory insects that suck the life out of the rose plants.

I think aphids are not predators.

In ecology, predation describes a biological interaction where a predator (an organism that is hunting) feeds on its prey (the organism that is attacked).

Predators may or may not kill their prey prior to feeding on them, but the act of predation always results in the death of its prey and the eventual absorption of the prey`s tissue through consumption

Aphids, also known as plant lice are small plant-eating insects,

Answer 2

The relationship is symbiotic because both benefit from a mutual relationship . The ant protects the aphid and the aphid secretes a sweet liquid that the ant collects and digests .

Answer 3

It depends on the kind of ant and the kind of aphid. Many kinds of ants have little relationship with aphids at all; they might cut them up and eat them if they find them, but they seldom would find them because they do not generally live where there are many aphids. Examples of such ants include some of those in the subfamily Ponerinae.

Many kinds of ants sometimes eat aphids, but often feed on their honeydew, the sweet, sticky, waste material that the aphids produce. They produce the honeydew because they have to eat huge amounts of plant sap to get enough proteins to stay alive, so in doing so they drink far more sugar and water than they can use. The waste honeydew is valuable to the ants, so if they find aphids producing honeydew they are likely to clean it away without harming the aphids. However, when they do so they are likely to fight anything else that comes along to eat the aphids.

When that happens it is good for the aphids because most kinds of aphids need a lot of protection. It also is good for the ants because they need a lot more energy rich food, such as sugar, than is easy for them to find. Examples of ants that do that sort of thing include some kinds of Pheidole megacephala (the big-headed ant), and the Argentine ant (Linepithema humile).

Still other ants will actually build shelters of mud and similar materials around some kinds of aphids on plants to protect them from enemies and weather. They also will fight anything that comes and destroys either the shelters or the ants and aphids inside. Examples include ants called Crematogaster, which some people call cocktail ants because when you annoy them they cock their tails into the air and produce a nasty smelling white liquid. Green ants (Oecophylla) are also called weaver ants because they build nests out of the leaves of the trees in which they live, by tying them together with silk. In those nests they not only raise their own young, but they often farm aphids and other sap-sucking insects.

This "aphid farming", where both the "farmer" (the ant) and the "livestock" (the aphid) benefit or "win" from the relationship is called "mutualism". Some call it "symbiosis", but some other experts prefer to call almost any relationship where different living things live together, but call it mutuallism where each partner in the relationship gains from the other.

Answer 4

No symbiosis is different from parasitism.

In a symbiotic relationship both organisms benefit. In a parasitic relationship the host does not benefit.

The ant aphid relationship is symbiosis because both organisms benefit from the relationship

Answer 5

no the ant has a shell like body aphids have soft bodies

Answer 6

• the kind of relation ship that the ants and the aphids have are GOOD