RE: Leaf Cutter Ants Hard at Work in Panama

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Leaf Cutter Ants Hard at Work in Panama

in nature •  7 years ago 

These things caused me the biggest headache trying to get my moringa trees going. I thought it was rabbits considering how much would disappear overnight. The closest thing I have found to a solution is to have a bunch of whatever you are trying to grow, enough that they can't eat it as fast as it recuperates. They seem to eat one thing for a while and then move on to something else.

And isn't there something to do with aphids in their nest involved? Some sort of symbiosis?

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I'm not sure about the aphids. I read that the fungus grows and they eat that. If one of the leaves starts killing the fungus, they will stop eating that leaf and find something else. Maybe a fungicide on all the moringa trees?