Leaf Cutter ants deliver their payload to a fungus underground to grow food. Leaf Cutter ants deliver thousands of pieces of plant matter to a fungus underground in order to grow food. See how plants ...

Biologists have found new types of specialized fungal parasites that attack the nests of leaf-cutter ants and their relatives. The discovery could provide clues for controlling the agricultural and ...

Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama discovered that carrying oversized loads limits the ability to perceive the trail in leafcutter ants, akin to blind spots ...