Some people enjoy gardening to produce some nice veggies. Often they will use compost or mulch to fertilize the soil for their plants. Leaf cutter ants do this very thing. The ants collect leaves and other foliage and bring them back to their underground nest. There, gardener ants grow a fungus on the leaves which the ants then use as food. The ants even have special bacteria on them that release chemicals to keep the fungus from becoming infected by mold. These ants are an awesome display of how God uses symbiotic relationships in nature and also how things in nature are way more complicated than I would ever be able to come up with.Sweet additional stuff:
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