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Deep Look
Watch Flesh-Eating Beetles Strip Bodies to the Bone
Dermestid Beetles are fast and fastidious eaters.
Where Are the Ants Carrying All Those Leaves?
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Where Are the Ants Carrying All Those Leaves?
Season 2 Episode 1 | 3m 26s | CC
Ants don’t eat leaves, they use them to grow white tufts of nutritious fungus to feed their offspring. Their success as farmers has made leafcutter ants into fungus tycoons, complete with their own underground cities and huge half-inch soldiers to patrol them.
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