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be at least partly responsible. Even 
Navanax inermis, a marine sluglike 
form known to prey upon many sea slug 
species, will actively avoid the trail laid 
down by F. iodinea. 
I am the first to admit that these 
defending organisms (toads, cochineals, 
and hydroids) are less than willing par- 
ticipants in our little dramas. There are, 
however, numerous animals that assume 
the role of defenders of the faith with 
somewhat more grace. 
One can, for instance, employ a body- 
guard on a sort of retainer basis, as does 
the caterpillar larva of Glaucopsyche 
lygdamus, a small butterfly of the west- 
ern United States. Incapable of mount- 
ing a credible deterrent force of its own, 
the tiny larva uses food to coopt ants of 
the genus Formica. Throughout much 
of its life, this caterpillar is surrounded 
by these ants, which groom and palpate 
its body and feed on sugar water pro 
duced by a gland (Newcomer’s organ) 
situated on the caterpillar’s seventh ab- 
dominal segment. 
The ants are the caterpillar’s major 
protection against tachinid flies and 
braconid wasps, two parasitoid pred- 
ators. Parasitoids are parasites as larvae 
but are free living as adults. The flies 
and wasps inject their eggs into the 
caterpillars, where the young grow until 
the caterpillars pupate, after which the 
parasitoids emerge, killing their tempo 
rary hosts. Ants actively attack these 
predatory flies and wasps, squirting an 
irritating liquid at them as they ap- 
proach their intended victims. Removal 
of the ants from plants harboring cater- 
pillars leads to a substantial reduction of 
the caterpillar population. 
Some speculate that the ants are be- 
ing shortchanged in this business ar- 
rangement, that the food value of G. 
lygdamus secretions is limited. If so, the 
caterpillars are no doubt mimicking the 
food materials of other species the ants 
defend, such as various plants and 
aphids that supply high-quality food in 
exchange. By capitalizing on well-estab- 
lished habits of these ants, the caterpil- 
lars may be receiving maximum bene- 
fits with only small expenditures. Where 
is Samuel Gompers when ants really 
need him? 
Sea anemones of the genus Calliactis 
are usually found on shells occupied by 
hermit crabs. In at least some instances, 
Calliactis affords the crabs considerable 
protection from octopuses, the crabs’ 
major predator. Octopuses prey on an 
unprotected hermit crab by enveloping 
its shell and continuously pulling on the 
crab until it weakens (a process that 
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