Leafcutter Ants Cutting Leaf
by Greg Dimijian
Title
Leafcutter Ants Cutting Leaf
Artist
Greg Dimijian
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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A leafcutter ant, Atta cephalotes, cuts a segment out of a leaf in the lowland rain forest of Costa Rica's Atlantic slope.It is attended by two smaller ('minima') worker caste members waiting to ride the leaf fragment back to the nest, to protect the larger worker from tiny parasitoid phorid flies.
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June 6th, 2013
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