Texas leafcutter ant
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Atta texana harvesting from a Catalpa tree.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scientific classification | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Atta texana Buckley, 1860 |
The Texas leafcutter Ant, Atta texana, is a fungus-farming ant species mainly found in Texas and Louisiana in the U.S.. It can also be found in a few north-eastern states of Mexico. It harvests leaves from over 200 types of plants and is considered a major pest to the state's agricultural interests, as it can defoliate a citrus tree in less than 24 hours
Ants have a social class system that is very structured.
 |
This article related to an ant is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
