{"id":3206,"date":"2015-03-10T10:29:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T10:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=3206"},"modified":"2015-03-10T10:29:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T10:29:41","slug":"the-pitcher-and-the-carpenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/the-pitcher-and-the-carpenter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pitcher and the Carpenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3207\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3207\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ant-carnivorous-plant-borneo_88856_990x742.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3207 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ant-carnivorous-plant-borneo_88856_990x742.jpg\" alt=\"ant-carnivorous-plant-borneo_88856_990x742\" width=\"990\" height=\"743\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ant-carnivorous-plant-borneo_88856_990x742.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ant-carnivorous-plant-borneo_88856_990x742-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Christian Ziegler,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #333333;\">The fanged pitcher plant and the carpenter ant (seen here in Borneo) have a mutualistic relationship: While the plant\u2019s pitcher stem provides a home for small ant colonies of up to 30 individuals, the ants keep the chemistry of the pitcher\u2019s liquid balanced by removing large insects that have found their way inside. If the insects were to rot in the liquid, it would spoil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>See more images of Borneo\u2019s carnivorous pitcher plants on\u00a0<a style=\"color: #044e8e;\" href=\"http:\/\/proof.nationalgeographic.com\/2015\/01\/28\/the-living-breathing-world-of-borneos-carnivorous-pitcher-plants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proof<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fanged pitcher plant and the carpenter ant (seen here in Borneo) have a mutualistic relationship: While the plant\u2019s pitcher stem provides a home for small ant colonies of up to 30 individuals, the ants keep the chemistry of the pitcher\u2019s liquid balanced by removing large insects that have found their way inside. 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