Plants are its food, hence its name.
They will eat the smaller bugs around them
They will eat the smaller bugs around them
Acromyrmex and Atta
a leaf ant has 6 legs
The leaf cutter ants are a red or brownish color
Food source and pest protection describe the respective ways that leaf cutter ants and fungi benefit from their relationship. The relationship gets called mutualism because the interaction does no harm to either party. Leaf cutter ants inoculate leaves with fungi before colony meals and supply bacteria from their skins to protect the fungi from lethal pests.
In a food chain, the Leaf-cutter ant is the primary consumer or secondary consumer. It will eat the primary producer in the chain then is killed by the secondary consumer. On the other hand, the ant eats the primary consumer that feeds from the primary producer.
No, a leaf-cutter ant is not a vertebrate. It is an invertebrate, belonging to the class Insecta within the phylum Arthropoda. Vertebrates are animals that have a backbone or spinal column, while leaf-cutter ants lack this structure.
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Leaf Cutter Ant - The leaf cutter ant does not eat the leaves, but actually feeds them to a mold-like fungus hidden in the depth of its nest.
up to 600 at one time.
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