Talk:El Segundo blue

Population

don't really know but i'll find out sorry for the inconvenience —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.90.183.146 (talk) 03:07, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Larval symbiosis with ants

I noticed many of the photos of larvae showed ants in attendance, so I went looking. From a PDF by the Xerces society:

The larvae maintain a symbiotic relationship with ants (myrmecophilous). The larvae develop glands and eversible tubes that produce a sweet secretion by the third instar, and are thereafter tended by various species of ants (Linepfthema humile or Conomyrmex species). The ants may protect the caterpillars from parasites and/or small predators.

https://xerces.org/sites/default/files/publications/08-217.pdf

This is true of a lot of Lycaenidae that have a slug-like caterpillar

Don't know how to do a footnote, much less from a pdf.

While I'm at it, neither 'eversible' nor 'vesicle' -in this context- seem to exist on Wikipedia- eversible tubes (or vesicles) are anatomical structures found on some arthropods

cheers -rudyard (talk) 23:46, 22 April 2026 (UTC)