The CSIRO has released details of 139 new species to have been identified in the past year, including an ant that 'babysits' the caterpillars of a rare butterfly.
"The ants feed on a sugary substance that the caterpillars produce from glands. The ants get this nice sugary secretion and the butterflies get protection."
Australian fauna — especially insects — is still poorly researched compared with fauna in most other developed countries."We have a first world economy, good infrastructure, but we drive past new species all the time. While that appears to be the trend, Dr Yeates said a few years ago a large, deepwater cod species was discovered at a fish market.
The weevils have long, arachnid-like legs, are blind, and appear to have adapted to life in the darkness.are relics from a period when the region was covered in rainforest.
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