The life of leaf cutting ants

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rens
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The life of leaf cutting ants

Post by rens » Tue Dec 15, 2015 4:37 pm

Leaf cutting ants live in large colonies of up to two million. The name comes from their habit of cutting leaves and other plant parts from a variety of plants. In Texas, these ants damage weeds, grasses, plum and peach trees, blackberry bushes and many other fruit, nut and ornamental plants as well as several cereal and forage crops. The ants do not eat the leaf fragments they collect, but take them into their underground nest where they use the material to raise a fungus garden. As the fungus grows, certain parts of it are eaten by the ants and fed to the larvae. This fungus is their only known source of food. :D

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Re: The life of leaf cutting ants

Post by Atta solider » Wed Dec 16, 2015 2:19 pm

Some colony's can get over to 8 million ants and queen in her life time can lay 150 million

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Acromyrmexbob
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Re: The life of leaf cutting ants

Post by Acromyrmexbob » Wed Dec 16, 2015 7:04 pm

It equates to around 30000 eggs per day.

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Antkit
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Re: The life of leaf cutting ants

Post by Antkit » Fri Dec 18, 2015 9:52 pm

My word, that is a few eggs.
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