Among the leaf-cutting ants, these flies have transformed their entire social structure. ❋ Carl Zimmer (2009)
While this is going on, it shows oil palm and a lot of wildlife and plants - most of which are not found in Malaysia an iguana, hummingbirds, salvinia water plant - I'm not even sure that the particular leaf-cutting ant pictured is one found in Malaysia, although I could be wrong about that. ❋ Glenda Larke (2008)
For the next few weeks they explored hundreds of acres of Amazon rain forest, taking note of things they had never before seen, such as plants that snapped shut upon being touched and leaf-cutting ants that marched in masses of thousands with slivers of leaves on their backs, like a green field in motion. ❋ Ann Hagedorn (2007)
Yet this is what we find with a leaf-cutting ant species in South America whose colonies may contain up to eight million ants, a number which surprisingly represents the collective biomass of an adult cow. ❋ John Clayton Nils Jansma (2001)
The ants live on protein nodules secreted by the plant, and in exchange they protect the tree from its major predator, the Atta leaf-cutting ants. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)
"It is presumed that the effect of jackbean on leaf-cutting ant colonies is due to the action of fungicides such as demethylhomopterocarpin contained in jackbean leaves on the ants 'fungus gardens." ❋ Unknown (1996)
The following comes from "The use of jackbean as a biological control for leaf-cutting ants" in Biotropica, vol 11 (4) 1979 pp 313-14. ❋ Unknown (1996)
Serious insect pests are Dendroctonus (in Central American natural populations); Ips beetles; the pine aphid; leaf-cutting ants; termites; the Australian case moth, Hyalarcta; and the Nantucket tip moth, Rhyacionia. ❋ Unknown (1983)
I have no doubt that the primary object of these honey-glands was to attract the ants, and keep them about the most tender and vulnerable parts of the plant, to prevent them being injured; and I further believe that one of the principal enemies that they serve to guard against in tropical America is the leaf-cutting ant, as I have noticed that the latter are very much afraid of the small black ants. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
These ants form a most efficient standing army for the plant, which prevents not only the mammalia from browsing on the leaves, but delivers it from the attacks of a much more dangerous enemy -- the leaf-cutting ants. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
The leaf-cutting ants attacked the young plants, and defoliated them; but I have never seen any of the trees out on the savannahs that are guarded touched by them, and have no doubt the acacia is protected from them by its little warriors. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
Their chief service to the plant consists in defending it against leaf-cutting ants, which are the great enemy of all vegetation in that part of ❋ Various (N/A)
Here may be found the leaf-cutting ants, which store the leaf particles in order to grow a fungus on, and which they are very particular shall be neither too damp nor too dry. ❋ Thomas Carson (N/A)