BUGS

I couldn't help myself I had to post a couple bug pics from Mindo, so hopefully you appreciate them! Everyone loves butterflies and there were butterflies galore in Mindo, the biggest ones we saw were bright cerulean and got as wide as my face. This little guy really liked Jamie's stinky socks for some reason. Below this picture is a picture of leafcutter ants!!! I was extremely excited when we happened across a line of these guys in the forest. There were hundreds of them carrying leaves that looked 10X bigger than their body. We didn't get a great shot but you can get the idea! Leafcutter ants are fascinating because they harvest plant material and bury it underground to cultivate a fungus that they can then feed off of. They have an extremely complex society, only second to humans, that involves many roles for each ant such as waste management or guard. These little guys can form 100 feet across underground colonies in just a few years with eight million of ants living there.