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Unlike the beach chapter, or the desert chapter, the jungle chapter started zoomed in, on a single stem, with single leaf often filling the background, and that leaf had visible thickness. Amy and Betty were looking for a drink of honeydew, and found a treehopper in trouble who didn’t know she was in trouble.

Treehoppers and ants are natural friends, like aphids and ants. What the biologists call symbiosis would (in comic form) amount to species friendship. Betty’s pulling off a parasitic fly egg. But this is all happening on a round stem, so Betty has her lower right arm wrapped around Penelope’s thorn shield, and Penelope is also using her left hind leg to hold onto Betty while she tugs.

Of course a real ant would do this with her horizontally moving jaws, but Betty is using her upper pair of arms. My anthropomorphized arthropods have to be able to do what their real counterparts might do, somehow or other.

And of course, Amy and Betty do some things, like riding dragonflies and taming ghost crabs, which I don’t think real ants could ever do. But my ants are special.

Note also the little red mites on Penelope's back, her personal assistants.

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Unlike the beach chapter, or the desert chapter, the jungle chapter started zoomed in, on a single stem, with single leaf often filling the background, and that leaf had visible thickness. Amy and Betty were looking for a drink of honeydew, and found a treehopper in trouble who didn’t know she was in trouble.

Treehoppers and ants are natural friends, like aphids and ants. What the biologists call symbiosis would (in comic form) amount to species friendship. Betty’s pulling off a parasitic fly egg. But this is all happening on a round stem, so Betty has her lower right arm wrapped around Penelope’s thorn shield, and Penelope is also using her left hind leg to hold onto Betty while she tugs.

Of course a real ant would do this with her horizontally moving jaws, but Betty is using her upper pair of arms. My anthropomorphized arthropods have to be able to do what their real counterparts might do, somehow or other.

And of course, Amy and Betty do some things, like riding dragonflies and taming ghost crabs, which I don’t think real ants could ever do. But my ants are special.

Note also the little red mites on Penelope's back, her personal assistants.

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