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Why these ants carry leaves 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 garden

    Belt followed leaf-carrying ants underground. He proposed that the leaves supplied a crop of fungus for food.

  2. The green pieces became growing material

    Inside the chambers, he found brown leaf fragments threaded together by a minute white fungus.

  3. The food was growing on the leaves

    Small workers tended the spongy garden while larger workers brought plant material below. The leaf trail supplied a fungal crop.

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