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Leafcutter ants, insect famers 14 March 2020

Leafcutter ants, insect famers

Ever wonder what leafcutter ants do with all those leaves? Turns out, they’re not for eating (at least, not directly). The leaves serve as the raw organic material on which to grow the real prize – a crop of delicious fungus. The cultivation of fungus by ants is thought to have begun around 50 million …

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