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Confidence votes 184. Ants can carry items 10 - 50 times their own body weight. Ants are small but they are very strong for their size. if you were that strong you could lift an automobile. the ants carry or drag heavy loads for food back to their nests. The food may be parts of plants or bits of dead animals.
The foraging Leaf Cutter worker ant is reddish or rust-colored. They range from 1/12 to 1/2 inch in length. The winged reproductives of the Leaf Cutter Ants can be 1-1/4 inch longer. The Leaf Cutter Ant has a spiny body and long legs. Leaf Cutter Behavior. Leaf-cutter ants damage vegetation because they remove foliage in order to carry it back to their nests. They have been known to remove all the needles or leaves from a tree in one night. The leaves or needles are not eaten for food but used in another manner.