Leafcutter ants recognize and fight pathogen even 30 days after initial contamination, study shows (IMAGE)

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Leafcutter ants recognize and fight pathogen even 30 days after initial contamination, study shows

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Leafcutter ants recognize the pathogen even a month after first contact. In the photo, a lemon leafcutter cleans fungus cultivated by the species

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Quimi Vidaurre Montoya/IB-UNESP

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