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A pink carpet of ants -- leafcutters carry flowers
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I was walking through the arboretum at La Selva biological Station when I came across this beautiful flowing pink river. A tree about 20 meters from a leafcutter ant colony was dropping thousands of pink petals. The leafcutters were collecting them and carrying them back to their nest... a delightful sight!

   

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