THESE SHOW SYMBIOSIS BTWEEN ANTS AND FUNGI AS ALSO WHITE ANTS AND FUNGI AND THE SURPRISING SKILLS OF AGRICULTURE & ANIMAL HUSBANDRY BY THESE INSECTS

1. Strange events Chapter 8 pictures
Farmer Ants and fungal garden
Alex Wild – asunow.asu.edu
Ant covered by white symbiotic antibiotic producing bacteria
protecting its fungus farm ,tending its garden area
Ants tending aphids
Barbusse , Fanghong –Wc – cc
Ants look after aphids for their‘ honey dew ’and ‘ milk them ’

2. Strange Events pictures
Leaf cutter ants Atta leaf cutters
Smithsonian .com Arpingstone – Wc – Public domain
Oh Man !
We invented agriculture
*Millians of years before you!
Cultivating fungal gardens
Tending crop with care better than you!
We started animal husbandry*
Lacks and lacks of years before you !
started tending aphids as ‘cows’
‘ milking them’ much before you knew .!
 *60 million years ago

3. Strange events pictures
Termite’s fungal garden Fungal comb in termite gallery
Esf.edu-efb-turner Esf.sdu-efb-turner
The World of Macrotermes termites is really unique
They cultivate fungi to prepare the food for them by digestive technique .
Termites efforts fungal combs of a termite colony
Esf.edu –efb-turner esf.edu-efb-turner

4. Strange Events pictures
Termites cultivated Termitomyces reticulatus funji
Candice , Sasata – Wc – cc
Termite mound and fungal garden
Tania Nobre - wur.nl
Do termites ‘employ ’ fungi as their ‘ Chef ’orKhansama ?
to process or‘cook’! food by their digestive knowhow !
giving them for their labour - charges or ‘ pay ’ & ‘ perks ’!
in the form of raw material and a room to live there somehow ?

5. Strange events pictures
Honey pot ants
Greg Hume – Wc – cc
They store honey in their own abdomen-is’nt it strange !
But this is how they use some individuals as pots for colonies sake .
Does it involve sacrifice ?
Forced labour or slavery ?
Is a moot question !
Some facts are stranger than fiction .