How many children and big friends have watched "The Lion King"?
Whether it's the '94 cartoon or the '19'19 "Real Lion" movie.
If you've seen it, press a claw with Simba!
Do you remember such a shot?
Simba grew up in a foreign land with Peng Peng and Ding Man, and a group of ants brought Simba's hair back to the Glory Nation. The baboon elder was overjoyed to learn that Simba was still alive. ”
Today, though, we're not going to talk about lions, let's talk about the ants that brought Simba's fur back to glory. They just are...
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="64" > "walking army of leaves"</h1>
In The Lion King we see a swarm of ants, in a long line, busy transporting leaves.
That's right! This group of ants is the "leaf army" walking in the jungle - leaf-cutting ants.
As their name suggests, leafcutter ants are ants that cut leaves. Their palates are very powerful and are able to cut off a large, thick leaf.
Leaf-cutting ants will transport leaves all the way back to the nest from far away, so their teams will be long, even stretching for hundreds of meters.
There will be all sorts of troubles and difficulties along the way, but in any case, the dutiful leaf-cutting ants will successfully transport the leaves back to the nest.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="81" > "living in the rainforests of the Americas"</h1>
However, we all know that the story of "The Lion King" takes place on the African continent, but in reality, leaf-cutting ants are mainly distributed in the tropical rainforests of the Americas, and they do not appear in the African savannah.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="82" > "fungal cultivator"</h1>
Although leaf-cutting ants live on leaves, they do not eat leaves directly. Leafcutter ants will carry the cut leaves back to their nests, and in their nests, there will be special breeding chambers where fungi are cultivated.
Leaf-cutting ants rely on these fungi as their main food source. It seems that they mastered the cultivation technology much earlier than we humans.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="83" > "Leafcutter Ant Growth Process"</h1>
Leafcutter ants are completely metamorphic insects that go through four stages in their lives: eggs, larvae, pupae, and adults. The shape of the egg is oval and only 1 mm long. The larvae are shaped like worms and cannot see the legs. The larvae pupate as they mature and feather into adults after a period of time.
Whenever the rainy season falls, it is the season for leaf-cutting ants to breed. At this time, male ants and new queens will spread their wings to mate and look for their new territory, a phenomenon called "marriage flight".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="84" > "sociality of leafcutter ants"</h1>
The complex social nature of leaf-cutting ant colonies is second only to humans, and after the nest is removed, it also contains 4 forms of adult insects, mini worker ants, small worker ants, large worker ants and soldier ants.
They often come out in groups and cooperate in a division of labor, which is enough to prove that they have a very detailed social hierarchy and division of labor.
Such an interesting leafcutter ant
Of course, it should be placed with the green plants at home
Interaction is more interesting
so......
Do, anything can be done
It's time to show everyone a hand
Dream Bagh, bring nature home