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Seed planting is a successful business for winnow ants and the seeds they plant. Almost two-thirds of all herb seeds produced in the forest are picked up by winnow ants. These are herbs like wild ginger and trillium. Also, when winnow ants are removed from forests, some wildflower abundance drops by 50 percent. Seed planting also helps the ants. When winnow ants eat that candy coating elaiosome, they get all the nutrients they need to make more babies. Farming isn’t the winnow ant’s only talent. Like other animals, from woodpecker finches to chimpanzees to humans, winnow ants use tools to gather food. When a winnow ant happens upon School of Ants Map - Winnow Ant North American distribution of the winnow ant. Visit www.schoolofants.org/species/1160 for an interactive version. liquids too goopy to carry back to her nest, she goes out in the forest and collects bits of leaves and sticks. She takes these bits back to the newfound food and drops them right on top of it. These leaves and sticks become little plates for winnow ants. Workers bring the plates back to the nest for the colony to feast from like Sunday churchgoers at a potluck dinner. Aphaenogaster rudis is a fancy name, but the winnow ant earned it. How many of us have stood in the living city of a forest, awed by the architecture surrounding us? Somewhere, tucked into the hustle and bustle of creatures keeping the forest alive, creep winnow ants, rusty little architects helping shape everything we see on the ground floor. 67
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Credits About This Interactive Book
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Page 54 and 55: Meet the Field Ant Formica ants, us
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