where are such ants normally found?
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what is lycoperdon echinatum? A type of puffball mushroom. where is it found? Africa, Europe, Central America, and North America are there any species similar to it? L. echinatum you mentioned it was a type of mushroom, what was it again? Puffball mushroom is it edible? Young puffballs can be edible. are you able to classify this mushroom? Yes, the true truffles (Tuberales) are gasteroid Ascomycota. what is the last word you just mentioned? It is a phylum of the kingdom Fungi. are they beneficial to humans? Yes, ascus fungi have brought some important benefits to humanity. how do these mushrooms reproduce? It produces microscopic spores inside special, elongated cells or sacs. what kind of relation do they have with animals? The genus "Xylaria" colonize the nests of leafcutter ants and other fungus-growing ants. the last type of ants that you just mentioned, how do they mate? The winged males and queens then take their nuptial flights to mate high in the air. do these ants help in farming or gardening in any way? Yes, it helps in both.
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Fungus-growing ants [SEP] Gardening process
First, foragers bring in to and drop leaf fragments on the nest's chamber floor. Workers that are usually slightly smaller clip these pieces into segments that are about across. Smaller ants then crush these fragments and mold them into damp pellets by adding fecal droplets and kneading them. They add the pellets into a larger pile of other prill. Smaller workers then pluck loose strands of fungus from dense patches and plant them on the surface of the freshly made pile. The smallest workers, the minim, move around and keep up the garden by delicately prodding the piles with their antennae, licking the surfaces, and plucking out the spores and hyphae of unwanted mold species.