The ants use the fungus to cultivate a fungal garden that degrades plant polymers and other material. Remnant components from this degradation process are used and consumed by a variety of ...

The ants use the fungus to cultivate a fungal garden that degrades plant polymers and other material. Remnant components from this degradation process are used and consumed by a variety of ...

The fungi attacking the zombie ant fungus don't, in turn, zombify their host, but they do feed on its tissues and appear to cause it harm. "Every time we see these new genera we described growing ...

The lower layers of the garden are rife with fungus, which feeds on the leaf matter and grows specialized, nutrient-rich organs called gongylidia. These gongylidia are what the ants feed on.

The relations of gardening ants to man -- Body structure and function -- Classification and distribution -- Mating and establishment of colonies -- Life cycle of the ants -- Colonies and nests -- ...

Ants have farmed fungi for 66 million years, according to new work in the journal Science. It's a relationship that flourished after the demise of the dinosaurs, says Ted Schultz of the Smithsonian.

Alex Wild via CNN Newsource A worker of the fungus-farming ant species Apterostigma collare from Costa Rica appears in a fungus garden. Shared evolutionary history seems to have benefited both ...

No, it wasn’t an insect, not this time anyway. It was a type of fungus called bird’s nest fungi. Bird’s nest fungi are small. You might easily step on them in the garden without noticing it.

Ants have farmed fungi for 66 million years, according to new work in the journal Science. It's a relationship that flourished after the demise of the dinosaurs, says Ted Schultz of the Smithsonian.