Leaf-Cutter Ant (IMAGE)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Leaf-Cutter Ant

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The ability to break down the cellulose in plant material is rare in Streptomyces bacteria, except in strains that live alongside insects -- honeybees, leaf-cutter ants, some beetles --that eat or make use of the woody parts of plants.

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Image courtesy UW-Madison/Don Parsons

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