<em>Leaf-cutter ants</em> are fungus-growing, leaf-chewing ants that found in USA and Mexico.
The leaf-cutter ants <em>do not feed on the leaves</em> they cut but utilize these leaves for the growth of fungus such as mushrooms to feed their larvae.
The adult ants are known to feed on the leaf sap but they do not directly eat the leaves, t<em>he main purpose of leaf-cutting is fungal growth</em>.
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