One day I looked out my window and saw this moving flower. I thought it deserved a photograph plus an explanation here about these really cool ants. Leaf cutter ants are common here. I often disrupt their work days by crossing their leaf-carrying trails but do my best to not squish them. Here's the cool thing about them though- they don't eat their leaf (or other plant) snippets as most think. They're actually a society of farmers and use the plant material as nourishment for the cultivation of a fungus that they feed to their larvae. A quick Wikipedia search led me to more cool facts: some types of leaf cutter ants are capable of defoliating an entire citrus tree in 24 hours! (thus are considered a major pest in some places...). They can also tell if certain plant material they feed to their fungus is toxic and will discontinue it's use. Cool huh?