We have a problem with cutter ants. I lose my entire crape myrtle ... One researcher in South America estimated that a large leaf cutting ant colony harvested approximately 13,000 pounds of leaves ...

Leaf cutter colonies typically number two million worker ants and have one queen whose main purpose is to lay eggs. Before laying eggs, the queen takes a pellet of the fungus to prepare a nesting ...

Leaf-cutter ants, living in gigantic underground colonies, cut up and carry off up to 20 percent of the Amazon rain forest’s leaf matter each year.

A colony of leaf-cutter ants has received what is believed to be the world’s smallest Valentine’s Day card. The tiny love letter made by amphibian specialist Ally Sharp is just .1 inches wide ...

Leaf-cutter ants don’t eat the leaves. Instead, they place slices of flora into a fungus garden, which they grow with a natural fertilizer. The fungus garden supports up to 5 million ants in each ...

Q: Our hopseed bushes suddenly had no leaves, and we think it is from leaf-cutter ants. We also noticed our palo verde tree near their mound has no leaves. Attached are pictures. There are a few ...

HER HIGHNESS The queen of a leaf-cutter colony visits one of the ants’ gardens, where green leaf bits feed the pale, spongy fungus that in turn can feed several million ants in a mature colony.

A leaf-cutter native to Panama slices through a leaf that later be carried by other ants to deep inside her colony. Credit: Courtesy of Robert Schofield ...

First, two lilies disappeared from the garden. Then, a crape myrtle tree was stripped overnight. Tina Ramirez's house in the Harper's Landing neighborhood of The Woodlands was under attack. Every ...

Insects like ants heal their fellow species, and they even perform surgeries. Biologist Erik Frank is researching their ...

Atta colonies are bigger, composed of perhaps millions of ants, with up to seven different sizes of workers, including soldiers for "defence and ant wars," Currie said. The Acromyrmex echinatior ...

Memorable activities included observing oil birds, the only nocturnal fruit-eating bird, and watching 2,000 scarlet ibises fly to a roost site on a small island. The animal life which captured my ...