Amazing LEAFCUTTER ANTS in Costa Rica!!

[@flashketchum368]

Had no idea there were so many fungus growers! Awesome video as always.

[@theodorebosbodia8200]

Tons of stunning queens my g, sadly you can't take em back lmao💀💀💀

[@paulgrady7531]

y'all are so lucky to live in areas where there are fungus growers.

[@paulgrady7531]

I'm stuck in boring old Idaho :(

[@ArthropodAntics]

I mean, I don't live in Costa Rica, but I do still live in the state with the most fungus growers in the US, which is nice.

[@attines5979]

Amazing video showing some of diverse fungus growers in Costa Rica - very jealous! As a Acromyrmex Octospinosus keeper, I didn’t know Versicolor had shorter stubby legs 😂 That’s awesome. Really enjoyed the video - thank you! How big were the workers of Apterostigma collare? They look really interesting.

[@ArthropodAntics]

Yeah, A. versicolor are really shockingly different from the tropical species. There has actually been debate in the past about putting them into their own genus, and honestly? I can see it. As for A. collare, they were the smaller of the two species featured in this video, but still at least 5mm. Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@jonathanmulligan1172]

Makes me want my native trachymyrmex septentrionalis. I hope I didn’t miss flights

[@AntsCzech]

send me some Qs pls

[@attaenjoyer4092]

depends where u live, in alot of the southeast they have flown already

[@adamleszczyk441]

Up in the northeast have they flown yet?

[@jonathanmulligan1172]

@@adamleszczyk441 dont know. havn't checked. I think it would be around this time

[@jpg7878]

Awesome video!

[@formicastpod]

Wild they can just live out in the open like that.

[@lucahakase]

cheeto slay

[@samrockwallgunship]

thank you for making the leafcutter vid!!!!!!!!! i wish i could go there. where in costa rica did u go

[@ArthropodAntics]

I went to the Osa Peninsula on the Pacific coast. Next time I'll likely go to the Caribbean coast, as diversity is slightly different there.

[@samrockwallgunship]

@@ArthropodAntics i found a acromermex sp (I think) that was farming a fungus under leaf litter in the DR

[@Kyle_Spivis]

You refer to a few ants and ant fungus gardens as primitive, what makes one species more advanced than the other in terms of their farming? Thanks for the awesome video btw!

[@Antsant]

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[@seundarsdevonta1992]

What year did you travel to Costa Rica????

[@ArthropodAntics]

This was May/June 2023

[@Midwestantics-]

"it's so humid it's so humid" ok desert dweller 🦥