That is the plus side for the plants. But being inhabited by aion gold aggressive insects could make one important aspect of a plant's life difficult - flowering.
Flowers need to be pollinated so the plant can reproduce. So what stops the ants from attacking the helpful little aion kina pollinators or stealing all the tasty nectar that attracts them?
"Some plants do this structurally, with physical barriers to stop ants getting on to the flower, or sticky or slippery surfaces that the aion kinah insects can't walk on," said Dr Raine.
"Acacias don't have these barriers. They have very open flowers, but still, the ants don't seem to go on to them. We wanted to know why."
One clever approach by the plant is a food "bribe". "Extrafloral nectaries" are small stores of nectar on stems, from which the aion power leveling inhabitants can feed without going on to the flowers.
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