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Use Their Own Poop for Food Purposes
Attine ants are fungus-growing ants that actually grow gardens of fungi for colony consumption. Leaves are brought back to the colony where worker ants will chew and grind them into a pulp. They add the pulp to fecal matter to form pellets. They then stack the pellets into a hill placing the fungus on top giving it a surface on which it can grow and multiply creating an independent food source for the colony.
