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Some of the world’s greatest gardeners are mere millimeters long. The leafcutter ants of the Americas, for example, slice off chunks of leaves, haul them back to their nests, and feed the fresh greens to fungi, which the ants carefully tend in special climate-controlled chambers within their colonies. Just as humans can’t eat the hay we feed livestock, the ants can’t eat the leaves—only the fungi that flourish on them. Hundreds of ant species farm fungi today, and [...]