This chapter introduces phorid flies, aphids, wooly aphids, aphid cultivation, spread-limbing, and aphid lions.

Phorid flies are predators of ants. They like to inject eggs into a live ants. Here's a neat video about phorid flies.

Aphids are complicated little insects. Here's an article about the awesome aphid!

Wooly aphids are aphids with a waxy secretion covering used for protection.

Ants are known for tending herds of aphids.

Spread-limbing, where several workers bite and hold appendages of an ant victim so she cannot move, is an actual type of confinement used by ants, usually against another queen or worker overstepping her bounds.

Aphids have many predators, but the neatest is the aphid lion (the larva of a lacewing), a real life wolf in sheep's clothing.