The name of this dish visualises the bits of meat clinging to mung bean noodles as ants climbing a tree. It’s a fast meal to cook – not including the time needed to soak the noodles ...

Still others impersonate ants or wasps. Forty-plus named species ... Alchisme tridentata watch over their progeny until the young hoppers are old enough to fly away. The nymphs have barbs and ...

These are “ant-plant” trees, which famously cooperate with fierce Azteca ants; the trees provide shelter and food to the ants, and in exchange the ants defend their leaves against herbivores.