Three of the 11 attine species had abundant Pseudonocardia, including two Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants. Five other species ...

The 210 species of attine ants, including the 47 species of leafcutters, forage through the forests of Central and South America in search of leaves and other vegetation, which they carve into ...

Attine ants—those fungus farmers—vary in how dependent their funky crops are on the colonies that cultivate them. Some fungi can escape back into the wild and grow on their own.

The attine ants are a group of more than 200 species that use several different agricultural techniques to cultivate mutualistic fungi which they raise in funugs gardens.

While our human ancestors began domesticating food crops around 10,000 years ago, a lineage of ants called the "attines" became fungus farmers 60 million years earlier. The attine ants and their ...

Leaf-cutter ants, also known as attine ants, eat fungus that they cultivate in gardens by gathering vegetation to feed the fungus. “We think we invented farming 10,000 years ago.

New antifungal compound from ant farms Date: January 20, 2021 Source: American Chemical Society Summary: Attine ants are farmers, and they grow fungus as food.

Attine ants, which include New World leaf cutters, appear to depend on a particular kind of fungus to live. They grow and cultivate farms of friendly fungi, ...

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Attine ants — the first animals to deliberately start growing their own food — have caught the attention of some University of Wisconsin researchers. The ants, who have been tending gardens of fungus ...

Jan. 20 (UPI) --Scientists have discovered a unique metabolite molecule utilized by a diversity of attine ants, or fungus-farming ants, in Brazil. The the new molecule, attinimicin, described ...