Leafcutter ants are nature’s premier farmers. Native to the American tropics, they do n…
Leafcutter ants are nature’s premier farmers. Native to the American tropics, they do n…
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Leafcutter ants are nature’s premier farmers. Native to the American tropics, they do not eat leaves. Instead, they harvest vegetation to cultivate a specialized, edible fungus deep within their underground colonies. They were farming millions of years before humans even existed.
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