Foraging behavior of leaf-cutting ants. II. Walking on the foraging trail.(2.9MB, 00:00:27)Shot Date: 1996/03/20 Shot Location: Barro Colorado Island, Panama | ||
| species Atta colombica Key Words | ||
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Foraging behavior of leaf-cutting ants. II. Walking on the foraging trail.(2.9MB, 00:00:27)Shot Date: 1996/03/20 Shot Location: Barro Colorado Island, Panama | ||
| species Atta colombica Key Words | ||
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Animalia >Arthropoda >Insecta >Hymenoptera >Forimicidae >Atta >
Leaf-cutting ants cultivate fungi in their nests, from which they obtain food. Workers usually forage in the canopy of the forest and transport pieces of leaves to the nest. Their foraging trails are sharply defined. The small minim workers on leaf fragments, hitchhiker, are carried by larger workers. It is widely thought that they protect leaf carriers against parasitic flies.
(Data No.momo061130ac02b)
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