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Not exact matches
True to Mayan culture at different times and in different ethnic groups, edible insects have formed and are part
of traditional eating habits so Fairmont Mayakoba gives guests the chance to try dried grasshoppers, maguey warm,
leaf cutter ant or
ant eggs.
It's Sunday afternoon and I have helped a group
of second graders spot the queen
of our
leaf -
cutter ant colony, held two fox snakes, acted as a perch for a bunch
of newly hatched butterflies not quite ready to fly, and fed no less than three box turtles.
Certain
ants are soldiers, and others are farmers;
leaf cutter ants famously haul large chunks
of plant material to their colony, upon which they grow a fungus they like to eat.
However, in other groups such as
leaf -
cutter ants, it is the workers that produce antimicrobials, so disease can only explain a few instances
of soldier evolution.
The discovery
of another symbiotic microbe in
leaf -
cutter ant fungal gardens is «very exciting,» says etymologist Ted Schultz
of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. «When I first got into this stuff, we thought it was a... two - partner symbiosis.
Leaf -
cutter ants carry pieces
of leaves over their heads as if they're carrying little umbrellas or parasols.
I might have stopped to kick off my flip - flops and feel the cool granular earth between my toes or watch the
leaf -
cutter ants in their regimented march to and from the nest, both inside my body and out
of it at the same time, a female hominid
of breeding age bent over in the naturalist's trance and wondering if this earth, the old one, the original one, would still be her home in a month's time.
Our excellent naturalist guides will helpyou discover the wonders
of the tropical rainforest, such as
leaf cutter ants and sleepy sloths.