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Most people think that Leaf-Cutter Ants eat, well, LEAVES, but, that is wrong. As their name suggests, they DO cut leaves, but when they get to the colony, they grind the leaves to a pulp and use it as a natural fertilizer for the FUNGUS that they eat.
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∙ 11y agoDon't know but coral snakes on the pacific coast are often fount in the leaf cutters den
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Do leaf-cutter ants eat leafs?
Most people think that Leaf-Cutter Ants eat, well, LEAVES, but, that is wrong. As their name suggests, they DO cut leaves, but when they get to the colony, they grind the leaves to a pulp and use it as a natural fertilizer for the FUNGUS that they eat.
Why do Leaf cutter ants eat fungus?
Because the ants need to eat
Is a tapir an ant eater?
Human eat tapirs and leaf cutter ants
do leaf cutter ants save the leaves to eat later in the day?
No. They take the leaf cuttings back to the mound to feed a fungus that they then eat.
Do ants eat leafs?
Leaf cutting ants in fact do not eat leaves. Rather they cut them up and use them to cultivate a symbiotic fungus that in turn provides them with food.
What eats ants in the amazon rain forest?
Leaf-Cutter ants are found in the rainforest. The ants do not actually eat the leaves, but the fungus that comes from the leaves.
Ants that eat fungus?
there are leafcutter ants!
What do leaf cutter ants farm?
Leaf cutter ants live in subterranean colonies, where they have chambers that contain their fungus gardens. They forage above ground to cut leaves to bring back to the colony to cultivate more fungus. These ants are native to Central and South America but there are some species that can be found as far North as Texas in the United States.
What do an ant eat?
I only know about Leaf-cutter ants. They find leaves, let them rot, then eat the mold.
What type of plants do ants eat?
leafs.
Is a leaf cutter a carnivore?
Leaf cutter ants go out to collect pieces of leaves that they cut off, then take what they have collected back to the nest. In the nest special worker ants prepare the leaf to grow a special fungus that grows into little lumps that the ants feed on. So you can see that what the ants eat is not flesh, but bits of fungus that they grow, much as humans grow mushrooms for food. So we say that they are not carnivores, but fungivorous or mycophagous, two words that mean the same thing: "fungus-eating".
What is the leaf cutter ants predator?
Technically no, because they do not eat the leaves (and other vegetation) they harvest, but instead feed it to their subterranean fungal gardens whose fruiting bodies they do eat. Ecologically, or from a plant's perspective, leafcutter ants have very similar effects to that of a herbivore. Individual colonies of leafcutter ants can consume the same amount of plant biomass that a "real" herbivore such as a cow consumes on a daily basis.
