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Why these ants carry leaves underground
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- The leaves were for a garden
Belt followed leaf-carrying ants underground. He proposed that the leaves supplied a crop of fungus for food.
- The green pieces became growing material
Inside the chambers, he found brown leaf fragments threaded together by a minute white fungus.
- 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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