My essay on how ants are better and smarter than jeets
>An average leafcutter ant colony can have anywhere from 1 million to 8 million ants.
>Large mature colonies can reach up to 10 million ants and cover areas of 30–600 m2 underground, with thousands of interconnected chambers.
>Leafcutter ants don’t eat the leaves they collect. Instead, they’re fungus farmers
>Inside underground chambers, they chew the leaves into pulp, add saliva, and use it as a substrate to grow a special fungus
Now this is the part where ants and jeets difer
>Leafcutter ants have an organized waste management process
>They create special waste chambers, separate from the fungus gardens and brood chambers
>Only a specific group of “waste worker” ants handle trash — old fungus, dead ants, leaf refuse, and feces.
>These workers never return to the main nest after entering the waste zone, effectively quarantining themselves to prevent disease spread.
>Their farming system is so sophisticated that it’s often compared to human agriculture — complete with crop cultivation, pest management, and waste recycling — except they’ve been doing it for about 50 million years longer than we (white people) have.