- Ants can be more effective than pesticides at helping farmers produce food: they decrease the abundance of non-honeydew-producing pests, decrease plant damage and increase crop yield, decrease the abundance of natural enemies, and increase honeydew-producing pest abundance https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.1316 136 comments science
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