nepenthes bicalcarata

The ant makes its nest in the hollow tendrils of the pitcher plant Nepenthes bicalcarata.

Camponotus schmitzi inhabits the hollow tendrils of the plant Nepenthes bicalcarata.

The pitcher plant Nepenthes bicalcarata obtains an estimated 42% of its total foliar nitrogen from ant waste.

The aquatic arthropod community of the pitcher plant, Nepenthes bicalcarata (Nepenthaceae) in Brunei.

Initial colonisation and prey capture in Nepenthes bicalcarata (Nepenthaceae) pitchers in Brunei.

Über die Kannenpflanze Nepenthes bicalcarata J.D. Hooker.

Nepenthes bicalcarata also occurs in kerangas forest and has even been recorded from white sand heath forests in Sarawak and East Kalimantan.

They are commonly known as diving ants, swimming ants, and pitcher-plant ants due to their habit of diving into the digestive fluids of their plant host Nepenthes bicalcarata.

The carnivorous plant Nepenthes bicalcarata as well as Macaranga caladiifolia and Clerodendrum fistulosum, grow alongside some Korthalsias in Borneo, and also feature swollen appendages in which ants nest.

Camponotus schmitzi, the diving ant, has an intimate degree of mutualism with the pitcher plant Nepenthes bicalcarata; it not only retrieves prey and detritus from beneath the surface of the liquid in the pitchers, but repels herbivores, and cleans the pitcher peristome, maintaining its slippery nature.