fungus-growing ants
attini

This species is part of the Attini tribe (the fungus-growing ants).

"Fungus-growing ants use antibiotic-producing bacteria to control garden parasites."

Mycetosoritis is a genus of fungus-growing ants.

But Dr. Schultz expressed horror at indiscriminately wiping out all fungus-growing ants, many species of which are harmless.

Gongylidia are hyphal swellings cultivated by higher-attine genera of fungus-growing ants .

Genera Leucoagaricus and Leucocoprinus are known to be cultivated by fungus-growing ants in ant-fungus mutualism.

The fungus-growing ants (tribe Attini) comprises all the known fungus-growing ant species in the world participating in ant-fungus mutualism.

These species of tropical, fungus-growing ants are all endemic to South and Central America, Mexico and parts of the southern United States.

Commonly known as "leafcutter ants" they are a species of ant from one of the two genera of advanced fungus-growing ants within the tribe Attini.

Fungus-growing ants that make up the tribe Attini, including leafcutter ants, cultivate certain species of fungus in the Leucoagaricus or Leucocoprinus genera of the Agaricaceae family.

Several ascomycetes of the genus Xylaria colonize the nests of leafcutter ants and other fungus-growing ants of the tribe Attini, and the fungal gardens of termites (Isoptera).

Examples of mutualism include fungus-growing ants employing agricultural symbiosis, bacteria living in the guts of insects and other organisms, the fig wasp and yucca moth pollination complex, lichens with fungi and photosynthetic algae, and corals with photosynthetic algae.

This species is part of the Attini tribe (the fungus-growing ants).

Atta sexdens is a species of leafcutter ant belonging to the tribe Attini.

Commonly known as "leaf-cutter ants" they are a species of ant from one of the two genera of advanced attines within the tribe Attini.

The fungus-growing ants (tribe Attini) comprises all the known fungus-growing ant species in the world participating in ant-fungus mutualism.

It is this capacity for farming which initially prompted research into the species as a basal genus member would provide insight into the natural history of the fungal-cultivating ant tribe, Attini.

Ants of the genus Atta are leafcutter ants that comprise one of the two genera of leafcutting ants within the tribe Attini, along with Acromyrmex.

Fowler, H. G; Robinson, S. W., Foraging by Atta sexdens (Formicidae: Attini): seasonal patterns caste and efficiency.

Fungus-growing ants that make up the tribe Attini, including leafcutter ants, cultivate certain species of fungus in the Leucoagaricus or Leucocoprinus genera of the Agaricaceae family.

The female fore wings of all three Attini basal genera (Mycocepurus, Apterostigma, and Myrmicocrypta) have a crescent-shaped spot lacking any veins or pigmentation, though the spot's functionality is unknown.

Only termites, leafcutter ants (tribe Attini) and some social bees (the stingless melipones) even come close to ants in their large-scale efforts to alter their environments and cycle materials through food webs.

Several ascomycetes of the genus Xylaria colonize the nests of leafcutter ants and other fungus-growing ants of the tribe Attini, and the fungal gardens of termites (Isoptera).

Fernandez-Marin, H., J. K. Zimmermann, and W. T. Wcislo (2003) Nest-founding in Acromyrmex octospinosus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Attini): demography and putative prophylactic behaviors.

Over 200 species of ants are known to eat fungi as a major part of their diet, but these ants in the Attini tribe have co-evolved with fungi, forming a mutualism that benefits both the fungus and the ants.

Some of the most spectacular herbivory, besides the outbreaks of caterpillars mentioned in Chapter 4, and other 'outbreak' insects of the last chapter, are due to the activities of leaf-cutting ants, the Attini, which occur between 25 north and south of the equator in the Neotropics.