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Very good for leaf cutter ants. They bring cut leaves back to their nest, chew them into tiny pieces and use them as a substrate to grow fungi which they feed to their larvae and eat themselves.
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What is it called when a fungus takes over an ants mind and comes out of its head?
http://bytesizebio.net/index.php/2009/03/19/killer-fungi-and-zombie-ants/
What fungus do leafcutter ants eat?
Fungus is what a colony of leafcutter ants [Attaspp, Acromyrmex spp] eat. That's why they slice out leafy chunks with their scissor-sharp jaws. The leaves are so important to growing the underground fungus that small but ferocious guard ants ride atop the leaves that the cutters bring back to the colony. A colony may have 5 million members in a 25 foot [7.62 meters] nest that's divided into hundreds of small rooms.
What is a GOOD killer of ants in my vegetable garden?
the one that kills the ants...
Where does the fungus that grows on old bread come from?
fungus comes from the air wich proforms it to spread but is good for you
Can the fungus Ophiocordyceps camponoti balzani effect humans?
No it only affects ants. At the moment it only affects certain species of insects. Not just ants. Who's to say that it's certain it won't evolve or mutate to affect humans in the future though? We can't rule that out completely. There is also another fungus that limits the spread of the "zombie" spores though. So if it eventually does spread to humans, at least there may be a cure.
Ants that eat fungus?
there are leafcutter ants!
Why do Leaf cutter ants eat fungus?
Because the ants need to eat
Is an ant a fungi?
Ants are insects, not a fungus.
What are Little farmers?
Leafcutter ants tending fungus "garden" - the fungus grows on the leaf material.
What animal makes leaves into a fungus for food?
Ants.
What Fungus that grows on gardens created from piles of disks that ants cut from living leaves?
fungus gardens
What is the symbiotic relationship between ant and fungus?
The relationship between fungi and ants mostly involve the ants actively cultivating the fungus in the same way a farmer cultivates crops. The fungus, in turn, provides nutrients for the ant colony.
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 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.
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.
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.
Why are there ants?
Ants evolved many millions of years ago. In fact, the first ant fossils are from the late Cretaceous (by the end of the Dinosaur era), some 65 million years ago. Ants provide many benefits to the ecosystem. Many ants are scavengers, or omnivores. That means that they can eat many types of food, such as dead or live insects, nectar from plants, or honeydew, which are little sugary droplets coming out of aphids. If things were not eaten by other things they would hang around a lot longer. Other ants are herbivores, which means that they only eat plants, such as the leaf-cutter ants. Leaf cutter ants cut leaves from plants and take them to the nest. Inside the nest the leaves are chopped into smaller pieces by small ants, and put into fungus gardens. In these gardens lives a fungus that digests the leaves the ants bring into the nest. The ants then eat small "fruits", called fruiting bodies, that are produced by the fungus. The fungus can only live in ant nests, and nests cannot live without their fungus. This is called mutualism. Other ants are predators, meaning that they only hunt live insects.
