Texas Leafcutter Ant
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Hornsby Bend,
Austin, Travis Co., Texas
15 February 2013

This was a colorful scene. A colony of Texas Leafcutter Ants was working over a blooming Texas Redbud tree and carrying the colorful blooms down the trunk and into their colony in the ground. This is a fungus-farming species found in Texas, Louisiana and parts of northern Mexico.

two shots posted, the entrance to the burrow and another shot of ants carrying the blooms down the trunk of the redbud tree.