Tourists flock to Amazonian jungle lodges hoping to find monkeys, toucans, and jaguars, but most of the animals they see are insects. Especially, ants. The Amazon region contains more than 1,000 species, many still formally undescribed, and they basically run the place. The leafcutter ants and their fungi are the forest’s premiere herbivores, the army [...]
A personal blog by Illinois-based biologist and photographer Alex Wild.
