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Fungus
Central and South America
Tropical rainforest, plantations and farms
A colony has a single queen that lays all the eggs, and up to eight million workers that tend the garden, forage for leaves, and defend the nest.
Leafcutter ants cut pieces of leaf, but they don’t actually eat it. They carry it back to their nest and use it to grow fungus which they use as their food.
