Ants Serving as Bodyguards:-

Partnerships between ants and trees are best example of mutualism in nature.The trees provide place for the ant colonies who protect the trees from pests(insects).Laurel trees are easily hurt to leaf-eating pests during dry spells, so the tree has developed a solution bodyguard ants.when trees are low on water, they boost their sugar production, more sugars support larger colonies of ants, so more ant bodyguards available to protect leaves against pests(insects).

Central American tree, the Acacia has more foolproof plan.The tree makes its sugars resist to Pseudomyrmex ants by lacing them with an enzyme to make the ants unable to digest other kinds of sugar, so ants completely dependent on the Acacia sugars and they protect the tree at all costs.

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