KOMPAS.com – Rambutan is usually sold in the form of being tied. Be careful when taking it because it is not uncommon for a lot of ants.
Some assume that ants surrounded rambutan due to sweet fruit flesh. However, it turns out that this is not entirely true.
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Reported by Kompas.comThursday (7/1/2021), Tropical Horticultural Study Center, Bogor Agricultural Institute (IPB), Prof. Dr. Sobir said, rambutan many ants because of the white lice.
“Actually there is an ant because there is an interest in white lice,” explained Prof. Dr. Sobir, Monday (4/1/2021).
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Ants are attracted to white lice in rambutan
Illustration of Rambutan Fruit. Prof. Dr. Sobir continued, the hair part in rambutan became the right place for ants to take the substance produced by white lice.
For information, white lice include liquid suction animals from fruit from young leaves.
The liquid not only consists of carbohydrates, but also sugar. After sucking the liquid, white lice will release sugar, one of the substances that is not needed by it.
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That substance is targeted by ants. Therefore, ants usually approach rambutan fruit with white lice.
Meanwhile, white lice can move thanks to the help of the ant.
However, rambutan filled with white lice will usually be blackish.
In addition, ants surrounded rambutan not because of the sweet taste of fruit flesh. Rambutan skin protects flesh and fruit liquid well so that it is not easily smoked white lice.
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