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The leafcutter ants were busy in Tucson a few weeks ago. Check out this mound the ants had constructed. Most of the workers I saw were carrying clumps of dirt/pebbles. The worker dumped her load and then went back for more. The surface of the mound looks like a boulder field from the perspective of the ant. Harvester ants and [...] Have you seen this fabulous Video from Science Friday? Biophysicist Robert Schofield is studying what happens when leafcutter ants can no longer “cut it.” Oh my, what fun it must be to spend your day playing with a leafcutter ant colony. I want a job like that! Edit: Myrmecos has a post about the research paper. 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 [...] |
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