Pest control

Tiny Bodyguards in the Mango Trees Imagine walking through a mango orchard and spotting leaves tangled together into strange green bundles. Look closer and you might find hundreds of tiny reddish ants marching aggressively along branches, guarding their leafy kingdom. These are weaver ants, Oecophylla smaragdina; nature’s tiny orchard bodyguards. For centuries, farmers in parts…