One researcher in South America estimated that a large leaf cutting ant colony harvested approximately 13,000 pounds of leaves over a 6-year period. This same colony excavated 802 cubic feet of ...

Watch the Video Click here to watch on YouTube For centuries we have believed that humans were unique in our ability to farm and cultivate our own food. However, it turns out that ants grow their own ...

Leafcutter ants march in two rows along the rainforest floor, carrying pieces of leaves back to their nest. It’s a striking operation above ground, but the story doesn’t stop there.

The meteor that killed the dinosaurs, is the reason leaf-cutter ants cut up leaves and feed them to an underground fungus! That’s nature tidbit of the year for me. I hope this information brings a ...

All of which makes the Leaf Cutter Ant one of the few, very few, creatures in the animal kingdom that not only grows its own food but can tightrope walk as well.

Ants are complex and fascinating creatures that have been around since the dinosaurs. But because of their tiny size, it's easy to overlook the enormous role they play in nature.

Take the leaf-cutter ant. These insects live in societies of millions, and feeding all those millions of mandibles requires a lot of work. ... A lot of ants carry leaves with hitchhikers on them.

Leafcutter ants are large-scale farmers, carrying thousands of leaf pieces and flowers down into their nests to meet the nutritional needs of a very specialized fungal cultivar that only grows ...

Most people who are stung by the ants are stung while gardening or doing other yard work. The small ants are very hard to ...

Question: How do we get rid of leaf-cutter ants? — C.H., Cherokee, Texas A Texas leaf cutter ant carrying a leaf that it has removed from a plant. ((File Photo)) Answer: The Texas leaf-cutter ...

Ever wondered how tiny little ants coordinate a raid on the cat's bowl? Humans could learn a lot from the answer, says Dr Karl. Back in 2011, an Israeli scientist named Ehud Fonio, watched his cat ...

Have you ever seen a trail of ants carrying green leaves back to their colony? They’re not collecting food for themselves, but for cultivating their Yes, Ants Actually Farm Their Food ...