🔥Leaf Cutter Ants are so cool!🔥 Leaf Cutter Ants have specialized workers who cut leaves and bring them back to the nest where they hand the leaves off to smaller workers which cut the leaves into smaller bits where the leaves also get cleaned and then with the leaf much ready, they use it to grow a special kind of fungus which they live in and eat from! SO COOL! #ANTS #insects #bugs | Lights.Camera.Ants

Say hello to a few (thousand) new arrivals at the Zoo! 🐜🍃 A new leafcutter ant colony recently moved into the Bayer Insectarium, and these tiny farmers are already hard at work. Guests can spot them marching leaf-by-leaf on a vine in their window exhibit now. The window also offers a peek at our invertebrate keepers behind the scenes! Leafcutter ants don’t actually eat the leaves. They use their powerful mandibles to snip off pieces and carry them home to grow a special fungus. That fungus? It