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VOL. 10, ISSUE 7 (2025)
A review of ants’ mutualistic relationship with plants and their role as pollinators
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Surajeet Konwar, Sewashri Das, Amrita Agarwal, Dashami Das, Riya Mazumdar, Rituporna Doimari
Abstract
Ants are considered to be most important
component of the ecosystem because of their abundance. They are the classical
nectar thieves and they also act as the ecosystem indicators. Among all the
Hymenopteran order, such as bumble bees, honey bees, wasps, solitary bees are
adapted to play a very important role in pollination. Ant-plants associations
are highly different in all terrestrial habitats, resulting in complex
ecological web. Ants are frequent flower visitors; they are attracted towards
the floral scents of the flower and this result in cross pollination in
flowering plant. The review paper incorporates about the significant role of
how ants are attracted to angiospermic flowering plants and their contribution
to pollination. A comprehensive study is also done on how ants –plants also
play a significant live in mutualism benefitting each other. Thus, the topic
ant plant mediated pollination and their mutualism requires certain study in
pollination biology. Thus, this study indicates ants are strange bystanders to
some angiospermic flowering plants; they are significant pollinators to some
flowers.
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Pages:162-166
How to cite this article:
Surajeet Konwar, Sewashri Das, Amrita Agarwal, Dashami Das, Riya Mazumdar, Rituporna Doimari "A review of ants’ mutualistic relationship with plants and their role as pollinators". International Journal of Entomology Research, Vol 10, Issue 7, 2025, Pages 162-166
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