The Insect House is home to leaf-cutter ants, butterflies, scorpions and tarantulas.
A huge colony of leaf-cutter ants composts the forest floor.
These had once been leaf-cutter ants, content to slice up fodder for their own tribe.
The white worm lizard (Amphisbaena alba) is often found in association with leaf-cutter ants.
Just as fascinating are the leaf-cutter ants that carry pieces of leaves, usually appearing bigger than they are, back to their nests.
Textbooks describe how leaf-cutter ants scrupulously weed their gardens of all foreign organisms.
Other leaf-cutter ants detect this signal through 5 centimetres of earth, and rush to rescue the trapped workers.
Among the invertebrates, the most notable are the termites and the leaf-cutter ants ("saúvas").
The Newark Museum, for example, includes leaf-cutter ants and termites among its living collection.
The farmers of the insect world, leaf-cutter ants grow their own food in underground...
