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RCF: Introduction for Agroforestry and Ethnobotany
Insect and animal pests can present major problems for farmers. Great losses occur due to leaf cutter ants and wild animals. Hypsipyla larvae cause major damage to timber (especially Swietenia and Cedrela) growing ...
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Tikal, by Carlos R. Solis
Leaf cutter ants, los zompopos, have built their trails parallel to mine. I can follow them for meters, as they had cleared the leaf litter to reveal the white ...
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Untitled Document
There was evidence of leaf damage possibly from leaf cutter ants. Both rose buses were also pruned of any dead foliage. July 16, 2004 ...
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Hop to It - Irish Frog Survey - Frog Facts from Around the World
Adult frogs not only eat the ants but they lay their eggs in the partly flooded nests of the ants as well. The ants use ... the nest as refuse tips. The particles dropped in by the ants are devoured by the developing tadpoles. The tadpoles are weird as ... feeds mainly on leaves and flowers. It is the only known leaf-eating frog in the world, with plants accounting for about 80% of ...
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RCF: Croton lechleri
In fields it is vulnerable to leaf-cutter ants, and often colonized by other species of ants. RCF has helped many families in the Tahuayo cultivate this species for ...
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Digital Frog International | Wetlands Links
Gallery Blog Frog Blog End main menu. Rainforest Image Archives From rainforest organisms, such as leaf-cutter ants, toucans and jaguars, to illustrations of the rainforest strata and how the water cycle works ... national animal. jpg 16K Toucan One of the most recognizable tropical American birds. jpg 18K Leaf-cutter ant A single worker ant, doing its thing. jpg 12K Heliconia A picture of a ...
digitalfrog.com


EcoFuture (TM): Page 3 of 3 -- a Costa Rican Rainforest
I was stepping over a never-ending column of ants returning home with crescents of leaves held aloft. I decided to make a detour. The ... , covered at least a hundred square feet. I had found the nest of millions of leaf-cutter ants. Now the air was noticeably warmer, my shirt damp with perspiration, and my thoughts increasingly ...
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Origins: Belize-London: Place
America. The jungle surrounding Las Cuevas is home to scarlet macaws, jaguars, pumas, tarantulas, bats, leaf-cutter ants, and a host of other creatures and plants. The Natural History Museum in London has ...
exploratorium.edu


Belize
Red Bank. On our easy "hike" through the rainforest, we saw leaf-cutter ants, migratory gray catbirds, hummingbirds, butterflies, a king vulture, and small parrots. We became familiar with ...
macawlanding.org


Voices of the Earth
Leaf-cutter Ants. Just look at the leaf-cutter ants, how they all work together cleaning all the land around their nests. Where the leaf-cutter ants live, all the vegetation is gone because they cut every last leaf ...
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