leaf-cutting

Among the leaf-cutting ants, these flies have transformed their entire social structure.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

Among the leaf-cutting ants, these flies have transformed their entire social structure.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

Among the leaf-cutting ants, these flies have transformed their entire social structure.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

While this is going on, it shows oil palm and a lot of wildlife and plants - most of which are not found in Malaysia an iguana, hummingbirds, salvinia water plant - I'm not even sure that the particular leaf-cutting ant pictured is one found in Malaysia, although I could be wrong about that.

Pull the other leg: Malaysian Palm Oil Council Glenda Larke 2008

While this is going on, it shows oil palm and a lot of wildlife and plants - most of which are not found in Malaysia an iguana, hummingbirds, salvinia water plant - I'm not even sure that the particular leaf-cutting ant pictured is one found in Malaysia, although I could be wrong about that.

Archive 2008-01-01 Glenda Larke 2008

For the next few weeks they explored hundreds of acres of Amazon rain forest, taking note of things they had never before seen, such as plants that snapped shut upon being touched and leaf-cutting ants that marched in masses of thousands with slivers of leaves on their backs, like a green field in motion.

Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

For the next few weeks they explored hundreds of acres of Amazon rain forest, taking note of things they had never before seen, such as plants that snapped shut upon being touched and leaf-cutting ants that marched in masses of thousands with slivers of leaves on their backs, like a green field in motion.

Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

For the next few weeks they explored hundreds of acres of Amazon rain forest, taking note of things they had never before seen, such as plants that snapped shut upon being touched and leaf-cutting ants that marched in masses of thousands with slivers of leaves on their backs, like a green field in motion.

Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

Yet this is what we find with a leaf-cutting ant species in South America whose colonies may contain up to eight million ants, a number which surprisingly represents the collective biomass of an adult cow.

The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001

Yet this is what we find with a leaf-cutting ant species in South America whose colonies may contain up to eight million ants, a number which surprisingly represents the collective biomass of an adult cow.

The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001