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News - Leaf-cutter ant first insect found with biomineral body armour

Started By StopSpazzing , Nov 26 2020 4:21 PM

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#1 Offline StopSpazzing - Posted November 26 2020 - 4:21 PM

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Coolest thing I've read recently about leaf cutters. Has anyone else see this in person or have close up shots of this biomineral armor?

https://phys.org/new...neral-body.html

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#2 Offline ZTYguy - Posted November 26 2020 - 4:22 PM

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So that’s why my Acromyrmex are so shiny

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#3 Offline BADANT - Posted November 26 2020 - 4:33 PM

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Very interesting reading, thanks for posting. I too would like to see pix of these majors covered in amor along with pix of majors without this armor.

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