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- noun Alternative spelling of
leaf-cutter .
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Examples
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One leafcutter nest was found to contain 1,920 chambers, of which 238 were fungus chambers.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Dussutour, whose earlier work showed that leafcutter ants organize themselves into separate and tightly-regulated streams of load-carrying and unburdened individuals when traveling in opposite directions on wide paths, was curious about their dynamics on narrow paths such as the tip of a treebranch — the ant equivalent of a one-lane road.
everyone knows an ant can’t get stuck in traffic | clusterflock 2009
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One leafcutter nest was found to contain 1,920 chambers, of which 238 were fungus chambers.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Later I look it up on the internet and find out the leafcutter, of theMegachilespecies, are natives.
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In the U.K., a website called Edible. com sells toffee scorpion candy, giant toasted leafcutter ants and oven-baked tarantulas.
Would You Like Flies With That? Bug Eaters Try to Get Some Buzz 2010
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In the U.K., a website called Edible. com sells toffee scorpion candy, giant toasted leafcutter ants and oven-baked tarantulas.
Story pick: Creepy, crawly, crunchy, chewy. It's bugs for dinner. 2010
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Dussutour, whose earlier work showed that leafcutter ants organize themselves into separate and tightly-regulated streams of load-carrying and unburdened individuals when traveling in opposite directions on wide paths, was curious about their dynamics on narrow paths such as the tip of a treebranch — the ant equivalent of a one-lane road.
everyone knows an ant can’t get stuck in traffic | clusterflock 2009
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The alfalfa leafcutter bee is an important pollinator for alfalfa seed in western United States and Canada.
Pollination Wikipedia 2009
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To this day, his lab at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology houses lovingly tended colonies of leafcutter ants from Costa Rica.
Wilson's World 2008
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In the wonderful Carl Frederick story about ants, the science comes in one - or two-sentence bits: Don't you realize there are as many neurons in a leafcutter [ant] hive as in twenty humans?
Story Log frankwu 2006
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