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Leaf-Cutting Ants
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Leaf-Cutting Ants
Provides a scientific description of the problem caused to agriculture.
2,925 words (approx. 11.7 pages) |
5 sources |
2003
Paper Summary:
Discusses the ants' ability to quickly strip entire orchards of leaves, fungal gardens of ants, and the usefulness of leaf-cutting ants. Proposes an experiment to examine fungal parasites.From the Paper:
"Leaf-cutting ants (Formicidae: Attini) are capable of devouring enormous amounts of vegetation - about 20 percent of the fresh-leaf biomass in the Neotropics. This makes agriculture of non-native plants which have not evolved a form of ..."More papers on Leaf-Cutting Ants:
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