Leafcutter ants are 'FUNGUS GARDENERS' that cut and process fresh leaves, flowers, and grasses to serve as the nutritional substrate for their fungal cultivars.
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Happy American Thanksgiving! Because of the upcoming Thanksgiving season, I wanted to release a two part special on some really cool ant species!
This huge head isn't for housing a big brain. Actually, it's a cage filled with muscles that power those sharp mandibles. This is a soldier of a leaf cutter ant ...
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One of my leafcutter colonies ("Atta sexdens rubropilosa"). It's my crazy queen, she's is working (carrying garbage). Don't ask me why.
Ants don't eat leaves. They use them to grow white tufts of nutritious fungus to feed their offspring. Their success as farmers has made leafcutter ants into fungus ...
12/06/2009, 12/12, 12/27 and 01/14/2010 footages. My other colony of leaf-cutter ants (I think it's "Atta sexdens rubropilosa" which is common in the region).
I finally have some more fungus for these queens! Leaf cutter ants cannot actually eat leaves, instead they chew it up into a pulp, and paste it onto a fungus.
A time-lapse of our leaf cutter ants cutting through some Southern Mulberry and Chinese Tallow.
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A colony of leafcutter ants, arguably some of the hardest working members of the Animal Kingdom, is now laboring away in a new habitat at the Children's Zoo.
Leaf cutter ants could be called the overachievers of the insect world. They are farmers, medicine makers, and green energy producers. With support from the ...
Reina de Hormiga cortadora - Hormiga culona santandereana Atta Ant, leafcutter ant queen.
Reina de Hormiga cortadora - Hormiga culona santandereana Atta Ant, leafcutter ant queen.
Please SUBSCRIBE NOW! http://bit.ly/BWchannel Watch More - http://bit.ly/BTcrazyant On this Behind the Adventure, Coyote talks about the myth of the flesh ...
Alates of the leaf-cutting ant Atta texana start for their mating flights in the early morning and are attracted by light thereby. The presented mass of Atta-Queens ...
Reina de Hormiga cortadora - Hormiga culona santandereana Atta Ant, leafcutter ant queen.
These are the the first six months of a leaf cutter ants (Atta specie) formicarium. Esses são os primeiros seis meses de um formigário de saúvas. *See also how ...
Illustration of the different tasks that leafcutter ants do to make a fungus farm from the leaves they carry into their nest.
Formiga Tanajura cavando para fazer o ninho.
12/06/2009, 12/12, 12/27 and 01/14/2010 footages. One of my colonies of leafcutter ants (I think it's "Atta sexdens rubropilosa" which is common in the region).
Weaver Ants a.k.a. Oecophylla smaragdina are among the most fascinating ants in the world! This video explores my captive weaver ant colony in an arboreal ...
The amazing story of the Leafcutter Ants - a species of insect that has been employing the technologies of agriculture and antibiotics for approximately 50 million ...
Hey guys , really short update on my colony. My written diary is here ...
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Today I saw the first eggs of the year in my young Acromyrmex versicolor colony today! The fungus is super healthy, fuzzy, and white. Maybe the colony will ...
The abundance of plants in the rain forest provide leaf cutter ants with a never ending supply of leaves on which to feast. More extraordinary footage from the ...