Leafcutter Dig - Hannah Marti
Channel: Digital Naturalism Laboratories
Date: 23/04/2019

We tag along with Hannah Marti, who shows us how to excavate the delicate fungal nests of leaf cutter colonies (Atta columbica) for scientific experimentation.

Hannah is a PhD student at the University of Texas in Austin working on collective memory in leafcutter ants and doing fieldwork at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.