Fourth farmers of the Americas Humans, it turns out, were actually the fourth animal to discover farming. Fifty million years ago, not long after the dinosaurs took that last long sleep, lowly ants began farming, growing fungus inside their nests and harvesting it for dinner. Within a few weeks, they have fresh mushrooms. Instead, ants eat mycelium, fungal tissues made of long tubes of interconnected fungal cells. And while the ants do drink plant nectar and leaf juice, they don't go out and hunt for small insects, as their ancestors did.
Some ants can carry objects up to fifty times their weight.
Difficult subject, but vital for developing and maintaining a healthy, expanding colony. In the couple months since then my two colonies have been transformed. They now need from 3 to 5 flies a day, and of course increasing weekly. I just put them in the little tubs that I have developed using plaster of Paris and test tubes - they are quickly found and brought in. My colonies are medium-sized myrmecines possibly Novimessor cockerelli.