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Panamanian Leaf-Cutter Ants - 3
Leaf-cutter ants have two castes of trash removers. One group, pictured here, picks up the waste particles, carries them out of the nest, then climbs a foot or so up the truck of a tree before dropping the particles to the ground. Another group picks up the particles and drags them onto the colony's dump. Presummably, this means fewer ants get their legs contaminated by the waste matter at the dump.
Panamanian Leaf-Cutter Ants - 3
Leaf-cutter ants have two castes of trash removers. One group, pictured here, picks up the waste particles, carries them out of the nest, then climbs a foot or so up the truck of a tree before dropping the particles to the ground. Another group picks up the particles and drags them onto the colony's dump. Presummably, this means fewer ants get their legs contaminated by the waste matter at the dump.