Have you seen this fabulous Video from Science Friday? Biophysicist Robert Schofield is studying what happens when leafcutter ants can no longer “cut it.”
Oh my, what fun it must be to spend your day playing with a leafcutter ant colony. I want a job like that!
Edit: Myrmecos has a post about the research paper.
Where did you find this video? I would like to link to it with its embedded code. 🙂
Nevermind! I found it: http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201012312
Hum, I thought the link to Science Friday in the first line took you right to it?