Nature

Weaver ants glue leaves together using their own larvae as glue guns

To build a nest, weaver ants pull leaf edges together with their bodies, then carry their own silk-spinning larvae back and forth along the seam like living glue guns. The larvae secrete silk on command, and the workers use it to stitch the leaves into a sealed, waterproof pouch. The larvae themselves never get to spin a cocoon of their own.

Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson, Weaver Ants: Social Establishment and Maintenance of Territory — Science, vol. 195, 1977

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