Word: lycaena
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...Some ants are hopeless "alcoholics." Certain species of British ants keep caterpillars of the Lycaena butterfly in their underground nests, by caressing them obtain drops of ant-intoxicating liquid. In their insatiable craving, the ants feed their own offspring and eggs to the caterpillars: nevertheless, when the caterpillars mature into butterflies, the ants peaceably let them escape to the outside world...
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