Behavioural experiments on ants in response to silk moth larvae

Behavioural experiments were performed on ants inhabiting thorns on <em>Vachellia erioloba</em> trees in Namibia to test their response to a major insect herbivore, the larvae of silk moth <em>Gonometa postica</em>. This dataset records the responses of ants to caterpillars, including their response time &amp; how successful they were at evicting them. The results of analyses on the data are presented in "Thorn-dwelling ants provide antiherbivore defence for camelthorn trees, <em>Vachellia erioloba</em>, in Namibia" by Heather Campbell, Ian R. Townsend, Mark D. E. Fellowes, James M. Cook in African Journal of Ecology