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Why these ants carry leaves underground

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The leaves were for a fungus garden Those green pieces were not simply being carried home to eat. Thomas Belt proposed that the ants used them to grow a fungal crop underground.
The green pieces disappear underground. Thomas Belt followed the trail to a very different kind of harvest: a fungus garden.
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  1. The leaves were for a fungus garden

    Those green pieces were not simply being carried home to eat. Thomas Belt proposed that the ants used them to grow a fungal crop underground.

  2. Inside: a spongy, living crop

    Belt opened chambers filled with a brown, spongy mass. Close examination revealed tiny leaf fragments threaded together by a minute white fungus.

  3. Feed the garden. Harvest the fungus.

    The leaves supplied material for growing the crop. Belt found small workers among the gardens, while larger leaf-carriers kept bringing fresh plant material below.

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