As I have mentioned before, leaf cutter ants choose only certain types of leaves, not to eat them, but to feed the leaves to a fungus underground so that the ants can eat the fungus.
There was not a lot of light at the entrance to the hole, as it was very late in the afternoon. This photo is therefore not the best, but I decided to take matters into my own hands, as I will show you tomorrow.
This week we have photos of the architecture of Portugal posted on our Viva la Voyage travel photo site.
6 comments:
Here is a whole community beneath our feet. Very interesting.
Such enterprising little creatures.
Ants are such busy little things. Always going somewhere. We don't have leaf cutter ants here. Just those nasty little red ants.
Fascinating.
I have a strong memory of a line of these critters marching across a beam of wood near Monteverde, so orderly, such labor. However, I did not know that they build underground nests.
Maxing the photo is a good way to see this colony of ants!
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