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 ...

Fifty million years before humankind began farming, ancient ants were already in the agriculture business. Over time, leafcutter ants have evolved a complex system of agriculture in their nests ...

Some ants are impressive farmers. You might have seen leaf-cutter ants carrying plant bits back to their colony — not for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 sodium chloride rewards. Insectes Sociaux 57: ...

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 ...