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Leaf-cutter Ants (Costa -Rica South America)
Scurrying along forest floors these little ants work together like a highly organised army, each group of ants has a different job some are cleaners, cleaning the nest, some are soldiers, protecting to the death with their ferocious jaws, and most are workers carrying cuttings of leaves many times their own size and weight to the nest. They communicate leaving scents which give instructions of directions. Why do they collect these leaves, believe it or not to make compost for their garden, a garden of fungus which the millions of ants in the nest use as food. There are even some ants that spend their lives gardening caring for their special garden. When a young queen leaves the nest she brings with her a piece of the fungus like a deposit on a new house to start her new nest.
Leaf cutter ants video
Leaf cutter ants video
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