Leaf-Cutter Ants

As you walk along the forest trails of Golfo Dulce Retreat, you may find a line of leaves winding their way through the undergrowth and right across the path you are walking on. Look closer and you will see that these leaves are being carried by thousands of ants. These leaf-cutter ants live in complex colonies of millions of individuals. What makes these animals even more fascinating is that despite being able to strip a mature tree of its leaves overnight, they don’t eat the leaves; instead they use them to farm