Feature Animals

Insects’ extreme farming methods offer us lessons to learn and oddities to avoid

Six-legged farmers grew their own food millions of years before humans did

Leaf-cutter ants

Leaf-cutter ants haul bits of leaves to feed the fungus farms that nourish the ant colonies.

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By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

To picture this farm, imagine some dark blobs dangling high up in a tree.