2014年7月28日 · The queen is the most important member of the leafcutter colony. She is the only one in the colony that lays eggs to make more ants. This means that all of the workers in an ant colony are sisters. The queen also lays some eggs that become new queens and males. These ants leave the nest to mate, and the new queens try to start their own colonies.

Leafcutter ants are fungus-growing ants that share the behaviour of cutting leaves which they carry back to their nests to farm fungus. Next to humans, leafcutter ants form some of the largest and most complex animal societies on Earth.

The Texas leaf-cutting ant (Fig. 1), Atta texana, is a serious pest in recently-planted pine plantations in East Texas and west-central Louisiana, and in the citrus groves of South Texas. Treatments to eliminate nearby colonies are routinely required to successfully establish pine seedlings in areas where leaf-cutting ants are abundant.

Leaf cutter ant queens are typically 30mm length, they are dull brown, very chubby, and are monogyn (one queen per colony). These queens have been known to live for up to 15 years. They can lay up to 1000 eggs each day.

The leaf-cutter ants (Wikipedia, 2015) are reddish-brown in colour with long slender legs and shiny in appearance (Fig. 1). The body is divided into three parts: a head, thorax and abdomen. Each colony is divided into different castes consisting of a …

2024年6月1日 · Leaf-Cutter Agriculture A subdivision of higher attine agriculture practiced by species within several ecologically dominant genera, which cultivate a single highly derived species of higher attine fungus.

A leaf-cutter ant colony has a single queen that lays all the eggs and up to eight million workers. Worker roles include caring for the brood, maintaining the nest, foraging for leaves, protecting the colony (soldiers), and feeding others.

Atta cephalotes is a species of leafcutter ant in the tribe Attini (the fungus-growing ants). A single colony of ants can contain up to 5 million members, and each colony has one queen that can live more than 20 years.

2015年9月9日 · Leafcutter ants are fairly large ants, and are a reddish-brown colour. They have small spines on their backs. Like all insects, a leafcutter ant’s body comprises three main parts: head, thorax and abdomen.

2024年8月20日 · Typically, a single reproductive queen that mates with several males prior before founding a new colony (e.g., Hölldobler and Wilson 1990; Hölldobler and Wilson 2011; Muñoz-Valencia et al. 2020) Queen mates once, before founding a new colony