Some birds cleverly make use of the stinging insects to protect their nests and eggs.
African weaver birds build their nests above the home of the fierce paper-nest wasps.
The wood peckers of India and south east Asia, tunnel into the foot ball sized nests of the stinging tree
ants and lay their eggs there.
The woodpeckers are ant gobblers. The ants will fight anyone coming near their nests.
But they seem to sign a peace treaty during the breeding season. The ants protect the nests and the eggs.
In return, the woodpeckers spare the ants and do not eat them!
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