myrmepropagandist on Nostr: Here is a really great paper on raising and caring for fungus farming ants. We tend ...
Here is a really great paper on raising and caring for fungus farming ants.
We tend to think of leaf cutter ants as tropical creatures from the southern Americas, but there are a few species that live as far north as New York. In particular the genuses Trachymyrmex and
Sericomyrmex who collect dead leaves and other material for their secret fungi gardens.
I would love to raise a colony of one of these some day.
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/sites/default/files/media/file/antcollectingsb2015.pdf
We tend to think of leaf cutter ants as tropical creatures from the southern Americas, but there are a few species that live as far north as New York. In particular the genuses Trachymyrmex and
Sericomyrmex who collect dead leaves and other material for their secret fungi gardens.
I would love to raise a colony of one of these some day.
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/sites/default/files/media/file/antcollectingsb2015.pdf