• Question: What are fungus growing anty to they bring fungi with them?

    Asked by Sanah? to Eleni on 8 Nov 2016.
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      Eleni Vikeli answered on 8 Nov 2016:

      Specific ants, farm fungus for the last 25 million years. The most recently evolved and best-known fungus-growing ant species are the “leaf-cutter ants.” The ants do not eat the leaves; they grow their fungus gardens on them and then eat the fungus!
      We have a colony of these ants in the university. Visit the link below if you want to see them live!
      https://www.uea.ac.uk/leafcutter-ants/antcam

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