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the world, a terrifying-looking but utterly harmless scarab beetle that can be as big as
a cake plate. Fun fact: it can carry over 100 times its own body weight.
Leaf-Cutter Ant
Long processions of busy leaf-cutter ants traverse the forest floors
and trails of Costa Rica, appearing like slow-moving rivulets of green leaf fragments.
Leaf-cutter ants are actually fungus farmers - in their underground colonies, the ants
chew the harvested leaves into a pulp to precipitate the growth of fungus, which feeds
the colonies.
Blue morpho butterfly
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