title: Treehoppers transfer parental care to ants: a new benefit of mutualism.
abstract: Female treehoppers (Publilia reticulata Van Duzee) modify their parental care behavior in the presence of ants. Females with untended young remain with their original brood, but females from ant-tended colonies readily desert their first brood and produce additional clutches. Care by female treehoppers, in the absence of ants, increases the probability that a colony will produce some survivors, but ant attendance greatly increases the number of surviving nymphs.
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Bristow