Leaf and grass cutter ants, as their names suggest, use leaf and grass cuttings to cultivate a unique fungus within their nest. Each piece is chewed up and mixed with the fungus; the fungus is ...

A leaf-cutter ant worker tends to her fungus garden. These ants grow a fungus, which feeds the entire colony, using leaves that the ants harvest from the surrounding rainforest. This image relates ...

Current Opinion in Microbiology 15: 269–277. O’Donnell S, Garcia CJM, Beard J, Chiwocha T, Lewis D, Liu C, Phillips H, Williams T. 2010. Leaf cutter ants (Atta cephalotes) harvest baits offering ...

When Bence first tried to photograph leaf-cutter ants in action, he thought it was going to be easy. It wasn't, but, he researched their complex society and spent hours following them in the Costa ...

A man camping in the Amazon rainforest shared the moment he was woken up by leaf cutter ants ripping apart his tent. Conservationist Paul Rosolie was resting in the world's largest rainforest when ...

You might have seen leaf-cutter ants carrying plant bits back to their colony — not for eating, but for farming. Ants use ...

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

ADAM:'These glass boxes and tubes have been built to replicate the underground tunnels and chambers of an ant colony in the wild and they're full of busy leaf cutter ants. ADAM:'This is the first ...

“Right now my tent is being dismantled by leaf-cutter ants,” he told his followers ... Amazon Rainforest or entering into a ...