Acromyrmex versicolor
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acromyrmex-versicolor-208-614602
title:
Acromyrmex versicolor
text:
Acromyrmex versicolor is known as the desert leafcutter ant. A. versicolor is found during the summer months in the Colorado and Sonoran deserts when there is precipitation. They form large, distinctive nest craters that are covered with leaf fragments. Living and dead leaves are collected by workers and used to cultivate fungus gardens. Each colony can have multiple queens, if they do this is a practice called polygyny, and each queen has her own batch of “starter” fungus. This species does not
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Species of ant
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acromyrmex_versicolor
date created:
2010-08-20T01:43:38Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T05:13:59Z
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