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olomon once admonished: "Go
to the ant, thou sluggard; con–
sider her ways, and be wise:
which . . . gathereth her food in the
harvest" (Proverbs 6:6-8).
The tiny ant is indeed a remark–
able creature. In fact, the social orga–
nization and food-gathering abilities
of ants are utterly amazing.
Consider the tropical leafcutter
ant. These industrious insects harvest
leaves with a precision and determi–
nation that can quickly strip a whole
tree or shrub. Thc largest worker
ants from the colony snip the leaves
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LEAVE
IT
TOTHE
ANT!
by
Robert A. Ginskey
into semicircular pieces of just the
right size to be carried off to tbe nest
by other workers.
The sight of a little ant struggling
to carry a large-sized chunk of leaf is
truly awesome; but the fact is, an ant
is unimaginably strong and can carry
100 times its own weight! An ant can
handle jobs which would be the
equivalen! of a man pushing a five–
ton truck with ftat tires up a steep
hill!
So what do the leafcutter ants do
with the leaves once they get them
back to the nest? No, they don't eat
The
PLAIN TRUTH June-July 1979