Leaf-cutter ants are picky choosers. They will travel great distances just to get the right type of leaf, which they then tote back to the nest.

Pedobiologia (2022). [4] How leaf-cutting ants impact forests: drastic nest effects on light environment and plant assemblages. Oecologia (2009).

Exactly 150 years ago, scientists first discovered that leaf-cutter ants were cultivating gardens of fungi inside their nests, feeding the fungi bits of leaves and in turn eating the tips of the ...

In the video, which can be seen here, several leaf cutter ants could be seen scurrying about the tent, some gripping pieces of nylon between their pincers. Due to the large holes being left in the ...

The Year the Leaf-Cutter Ants Took Manhattan In January, the American Museum of Natural History’s new insectarium gained 500,000 tenants. It has taken them some time to find their footing.

Ants began farming fungi 66 million years ago after an asteroid hit Earth, according to a new study. Here the queen and workers of the leaf-cutter ant species Atta cephalotes tend to a fungus garden.