2020-09-24 OGM Call: Bootstrapping Ourselves
An Ancient Ant-Bacteria Partnership to Protect Fungus
Ants are skilled farmers: They have solved a problem that we humans have yet to
Ants Are Growing Food and They're Better at It Than We Are
Gongylidia (what the ants eat)
Grasscutter Ants Cultivating Crops - Insect Worlds - Episode 2 Preview - BBC Four
How Ants Figured Out Farming Millions of Years Before Humans
How Ants Take Care of Their Farms
Leafcutter Ants - the First Agriculture
Leafcutter Ants (hokey NatGeo video)
Leafcutter Ants Can't Digest Leaves
Leafcutter Ants Nurture Beneficial Bacteria That Secrete Antibiotics
Leafcutter ants; The Farm (xlnt, plus time lapse)
Leaf-cutter Ants - Science Nation
My Dream Ant Farm: Leafcutter Ants
OGM is like colonies of farmer ants, who tend to a fungus that feeds them all.
Planet Ant - Life Inside The Colony - BBC (xlnt)
The Ant City (Ant Hill Excavated - amazing!)
What leafcutter ants do underground
When Ants Domesticated Fungi (very informative)
Where Are the Ants Carrying All Those Leaves? | Deep Look
Symbiosis (living together)
Escovopsis (threat to leafcutter colonies)
All Symbioses Begin as Parasitism
Are We Organisms of Living Systems?
Budburst (when new leaves pop)
Cleaning up Fallen Leaves
Endosymbiosis (one org inhabits other)
Exosymbiosis (orgs remain separate)
Facultative Symbiosis (not fully dependent)
How To Become A Centaur (2018 xlnt)
Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960)
Odontomachus (Trap Jaw Ants)
Owl Limpets (Lottia gigantea)
SCOBY (Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast)
Study: grass, fungus combination affects ecology
Surprising Allies Help These Iguanas and Sea Lions
The Butterfly, the Ant and the Oregano
The New Story of the Earth
The Synthesis of Intelligence
The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today (2011)
True Facts : Ant Mutualism
Yeti Crabs (Kiwa hirsuta)
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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leafcutter ants, a non-generic name, are any of 47 species of leaf-chewing ants belonging to the two genera Atta and Acromyrmex.
These species of tropical, fungus-growing ants are all endemic to South and Central America, Mexico, and parts of the southern United States. Leafcutter ants can carry twenty times their body weight and cut and process fresh vegetation to serve as the nutritional substrate for their fungal cultivates.
