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They don't kill them. Larvae have jaws and unlike adult hymenopterans larvae can often eat solid foods. So the idea is that these ants overfeed the larvae so they can process the proteins into a liquid the adults can eat.

Other ants do similar things... but they don't bite the poor babies they use tropholaxis. The "Dracula" ants are a bit extreme in that way.

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