Perhaps the closest analogy which might be made is to that of the slave-making ants.

His examples included two he had investigated experimentally: slave-making ants and the construction of hexagonal cells by honey bees.

Additionally, slave-making ants do not have metapleural glands though the slave species they use do and it is these ants that groom the slavemakers and their brood.

Darwin noted that some species of slave-making ants were more dependent on slaves than others, and he observed that many ant species will collect and store the pupae of other species as food.

Like other Servifusca, this species is subject to raids by dulotic species such as Formica sanguinea and Polyergus rufescens where their ranges coalesce.