Ant-related Citizen Science Project
If you live in the San Francisco area and are interested in citizen science, you might want to check into the California Academy of Science’s Bay Area Ant Survey.
First you need to request an ant collecting kit from the Naturalist Center (see information at the link above). [...]
Leafcutter ants are exceptional ants. They construct large, complex nests. Each colony has a number of different worker castes performing a wide variety of tasks. Everything about leafcutter ants is done on a big scale.
Leafcutter ants are named for their habit of cutting out pieces of leaves and carrying the slices back to their nest [...]