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Leaf-cutter Ants

The leaf-cutter ants would clear a 6" path on the forest floor, sometimes stretching for hundreds of yards from their burrow to the particular tree they chose to harvest from.

 

The leaves they collect are not eaten by the ants, but rather used as compost in their nest.

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Uploaded on December 9, 2009
Taken on November 7, 2009