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Leafcutter worker ants carry cut-up pieces of leaf back to their colony to grow food. They can carry 20 times their own body weight. Mexico.
Leafcutter worker ants carry cut-up pieces of leaf back to their colony to grow food. They can carry 20 times their own body weight. Mexico.
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Leafcutter Ants
  • Atta species
  • Family Formicidae
  • Genus Atta
  • Jon Fuller Photography/NaturePhoto
  • Mexico
  • New World
  • Rights Managed
  • Subfamily Myrmicinae
  • Tiribe Attini
  • animal
  • ant
  • arthropod
  • bugs
  • carrying pieces of leaf
  • close up
  • close-up
  • cold-blooded
  • color
  • colour
  • copyright Jon G. Fuller Jr
  • eat fungus
  • ectothermic
  • fauna
  • flora
  • foragers
  • forest
  • horizontal format
  • industrious
  • insect
  • insects
  • invertebrate
  • jungle
  • leaf-cutter ants
  • leafcutter ants
  • macro
  • natural world
  • nature
  • neotropical
  • non-venomous
  • outdoors
  • outside
  • plant
  • poikilothermic
  • rain forest
  • rainforest
  • stingless
  • stock image
  • stock photography
  • strong biters
  • teamwork
  • tropical
  • vegetation
  • wild
  • wildlife
  • worker ants
  • workers
  • working