According to the the Rainforest Alliance, leaf cutter ants can be found on forest floors mainly in Latin America and the Caribbean. They construct underground chambers where they "farm" and ...

According to the the Rainforest Alliance, leaf cutter ants can be found on forest floors mainly in Latin America and the Caribbean. They construct underground chambers where they "farm" and ...

That's 2.5 million ants for every human. If you were to put all these ants on a scale, they would weigh more than the world's wild birds and mammals combined. That's a lot of ants.

Paul Rosolie tells MailOnline Travel about the night in the Peruvian Amazon that leaf-cutter ants stole his tent – while he was in it. Paul captured the drama on camera for posterity and posted ...

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Leaf-cutter ant colonies consist of up to eight million individuals, all of whom report to a single queen. She rules over her workers in complex, underground chambers up to 50 feet wide and 16 ...

Leaf-cutter ants at the American Museum of Natural History in April. The colony was harvested in Trinidad and nurtured in Oregon, and it arrived in New York City last December.

Texas Leaf Cutter Ants steal leaves rather than eating them. They take them in to their fungus gardens in the depths of their ant colonies and they use them to grow the food they need.

Leaf-cutter ants generally travel within 600 feet of their nest and telltale signs are the rapid defoliation of trees. Often, the ants can be seen carrying leaves to the nest, or their trails will ...

Then there is the insectarium, with its army of leaf-cutter ants in their purpose built, transparent leaf-cutter-ant city (watching them hoist bits of foliage aloft is mesmerising); a butterfly ...

Visitors also can pass under a transparent sky bridge to see 500,000 leaf-cutter ants transporting pieces of blackberry bramble to create their colony’s fungal food.

Tiny ants might seem like unlikely inspirations and sidekicks for a superhero, but real-life ants have astonishing superpowers that make them formidable allies. Super strength Ant-Man and The Wasp ...