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there are leafcutter ants!
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What eats fungus?
Leaf-cutter ants, believe it or not, do not eat leaves. They gather fragments of leaves and deposit them in "gardens" in their nests. There, fungus grows on the leaves and THAT is what the ants eat. Also, mushrooms are a type of fungus. So if you eat mushrooms, YOU eat fungus!Similarly, certain fungi can sometimes eat other fungi. An atypical example is the parasitic ascomycete, Hypomyces lactifluorum, which infects a host mushroom (fruiting body of a fungus). This specific combination, Hypomyces lactifluorum + (typically) Russula brevipes or Lactarius piperatus, is known as a single entity, the Lobster Mushroom. The cool part is that this parasite turns an almost inedible mushroom (Lactarius piperatus) into a culinary delight! By itself, this mushroom is described as acrid, hot, peppery, and unpleasant to taste, sometimes causing mild poisonings, but once thoroughly infected with Hypomyces lactifluorum, it becomes not only delicious, but also non-poisonous.
You are a type of fungus that can grow on gardens created from poles of disks that ants have cut from living leaves what are you?
These are most commonly known as fungus gardens.
Can you eat witchs hat fungus?
no they are posionouns
What 3 useful products are made by fungus?
Well, one is that in China, they eat a few types of fungus that are healthy for you.
What animals eat a forsythia flower?
Ants, at least the pollen.
Why do Leaf cutter ants eat fungus?
Because the ants need to eat
What do trap jaw ants eat?
Trap jaw ants typically eat different types of fungus. However, they also will eat different types of leaves and vegetation.
Do leaf - cutter ants eat leaves?
They don't actually eat the leaves - because they cannot digest the cellulose. Instead - they take the pieces of leaf back to their 'nest' - and use them to grow fungus on them. They then eat the fungus.
Do some mushrooms eat ants?
There is a fungus in the Amazon rain forest that infects ants and kills them. Its mushrooms grow from the carcass of the victim.
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".
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 kind of ants eat grass?
none, but there is a type of ant which eats the fungus that grows on leves called the leaf cutter ant. they cut the leaves, drag them to a colony, do some stuff to it and grows fungus on it. they eat that fungus.
What do leopards eat that eat ants?
Leopards are carnivores so eat meat. The type of prey depends on where the leopards are residing. However ants will eat almost any type of food provided it can be broken down easily or is very sweet. However often ants eat fungus (The fungus is fed by the ants on rotting material such as plant matter) or nectar (collected from wasp colonies or plants) rather than more conventional food sources. However ants like flies will consume rotten meat so will often get the leftovers of what the leopard had for a meal.
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.
How much do ants eat every day?
The amount of food that ants eat every day will depend on the species it is. They consume between 20 and 30 percent of their body weight on a daily basis.
Do ants eat tomatoes?
The ants in my garden are eating my tomatoes just as they ripen. The first few weeks I harvested plenty of tomatoes and then suddenly every time I went to pick the newly ripe fruit, the ants had beat me to it. Interestingly, they also ate the corn right off the cobs.....I have been very unhappy with ants this summer!!
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.
