We're familiar with ants as picnic-skimming and foot-biting pests, but just below the soil's surface, ants live surprisingly complex and intricate lives. The leaf cutting ants, or leaf cutters, live in a way that's particularly alien to us, as the dominant herbivore (or perhaps “fungivore”) of South American rainforests. Ant colonies as superorganisms Rather than … Continue reading The Cutting Edge of Ant Civilization