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Update Farming, crops, in detail. This is unbelievably fascinating. Every time there is description and explanation for ant behaviour, there is another question raised, almost always the same one, 'how does she know?'.
This is how leafcutter ants farm their 'mushrooms' crop. The foragers drop their leaves into a chamber where slightly smaller ants shred them for even smaller ants to crush and mould into moist pellets which they then carefully insert into a pile of similar material. This fluffy m ...more
This is how leafcutter ants farm their 'mushrooms' crop. The foragers drop their leaves into a chamber where slightly smaller ants shred them for even smaller ants to crush and mould into moist pellets which they then carefully insert into a pile of similar material. This fluffy m ...more
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