Leafcutter ants don’t eat the leaves they carry home in long green columns — they feed the clippings to an underground fungus, and it is the fungus they farm and eat, a practice that predates human agriculture by around 50 million years
Leafcutter ants cannot digest the leaves they famously carry — instead they feed the clippings to an underground fungus, Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, and eat swollen nutrient-rich tips the fungus…
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