Animal diversity of wild and exotic Panama. Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp.) carrying pieces of leaves and flowers over a tree stump in the rainforest Leaf cutter ants Leaf cutter ants (Atta sp.) carrying ...

There are at least 55 distinct species of leaf cutter ants, divided into three genera: Acromyrmex, Amoimyrmux, and Atta. While the Amoimyrmex ants typically have three ant castes (different types ...

We describe an improved version, called ATTA, incorporating adaptive, heterogeneous ants, a time-dependent transporting activity, and a method (for clustering applications) that transforms the spatial ...

For Atta mexicana, a tropical leafcutter ant that lives here at the northernmost limit of its range, the rain means it’s almost time to mate. Few people ever see a mating swarm, which happens before ...