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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.
Each species of leafcutter ant consumes a different species of fungus, tending the fungi with grass and leaf clippings. These fungi secrete warning chemicals when an ant introduces a leaf to the nest that is toxic. Within the large nest of an Atta leafcutter ant, air circulation is controlled by natural movements of warm air from the nestâs perimeter to its center. A leafcutter ant nest may descend as deep as six meters.