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Ep. 419 - Ant Dispersal Revisited

In Defense of Plants Podcast

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Mira McCockery: A Speciality of Yours

Mira McCockery is an mediated seed dispersal. In one form or another ants pick up and move plant seeds, there's really two forms. One could be granivorous ants that actually are going to eat and destroy the seeds,. But don't eat and destroy all of them, cash them in their nest. The other is a lysome based Mira McCockery which means the seed has a special appendage That attracts carnivorous and scavenging ants that eat the lysome, discard the seed intact.

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