You can find little lines of leaf cutter ants all over the place. They're busy little guys, and it's fun to track them from their harvest location to their home. Sometimes their rows are impressively long. There's one row that often goes under the clotheslines, and sometimes I make the mistake of standing in it, and I get little ant bites on my feet.
Apparently the ants harvest the leaves, take them to their homes, and feed them to a fungus which they grow and use to feed themselves.
That is so cool! We have a books with Leaf Cutter Ants in it, and we're slightly jealous that you get to see them in real life. Thanks for sharing!
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