January, 2025: Farmer ants
This is a nice way to show who the Fungus-growing ants are
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October 3, 2024: The coevolution of fungus-ant agriculture
The impact of an asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous (66 million years ago) not only temporarily interrupted photosynthesis but also led to the birth of fungus-growing ants agriculture, one of the most studied systems of symbiosis of recent years. This wonderful study led by Ted Schultz was published on October 3, 2024, and I had the fortune and honor to be part of it
October 2024: Field trip to Flona, Carajás
We spent two wonderful weeks collecting fungus-growing ant colonies in Floresta Nacional de Carajás, Parauapebas, Brazil.