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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Lesser Leaf-Cutter Ant

Acromyrmex octospinosus

About

A smaller leaf-cutter ant species covered in spiny tubercles on its body. It forms more modest colonies than Atta but is equally dependent on fungal agriculture.

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Did You Know?

Workers produce antibiotic compounds from bacteria on their bodies to protect their fungal gardens from parasitic molds.