{"id":386,"date":"2013-02-11T21:33:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T02:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=386"},"modified":"2013-02-12T06:52:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T11:52:52","slug":"leafcutter-ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Leafcutter Ants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?attachment_id=387#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-387\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-387\" alt=\"Leafcutter Ants\" src=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/leaf-cutter-ants-1024x672.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/leaf-cutter-ants-1024x672.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/leaf-cutter-ants-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/leaf-cutter-ants.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In rain forests all over Costa Rica, it&#8217;s not difficult to find Leafcutter Ants (Atta cephalotes) parading in a line, and carrying leaf pieces they&#8217;ve extracted from a tree. The vegetation is not eaten by the ants, but rather is used to fertilize a special fungus that only grows within the Leafcutter&#8217;s colony. Thus, this agrarian society of insects grows its own food!<\/p>\n<pre>All media is copyright costaricawildlife.net, 2013.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In rain forests all over Costa Rica, it&#8217;s not difficult to find Leafcutter Ants (Atta cephalotes) parading in a line, and carrying leaf pieces they&#8217;ve extracted from a tree. The vegetation is not eaten by the ants, but rather is used to fertilize a special fungus that only grows within the Leafcutter&#8217;s colony. Thus, this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=386\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,68,42,6],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ants","tag-insects","tag-invertibrates","tag-red"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}