NMNH Fungus Farming Ants - Chapeco

Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo
October 3, 2024
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Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo

Entomologist Ted Schultz (center), the curator of ants at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and the lead author of the new paper, with Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo (left) and Ana Ješovnik (right) in the Chapecó National Forest in Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 2014, excavating nests of the rare lower-fungus-farming ant species Mycetophylax asper.

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