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Leaf cutter ants spend their day harvesting leaves and bringing them back to the hive however those ants do not eat leaves but feed them to a fungus that lives and thrives only in the Leaf cutter ant nest the ants feed this fungus to their larvae this relationship is an example of

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Step-by-step explanation:

the fungus acts as a food source for the ants' larvae.

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