Ants were among the world’s first farmers
Excerpt from the November 11, 1967 issue of Science News
![Atta laevigata](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/102617_LH_50YA_fugus_main.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
FOUNDING FARMERS Leaf-cutter ants (Atta laevigata) cultivate a fungus garden in Brazil. Ant species belonging to this genus have been tending fungus gardens for some 60 million years.
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