Say hello to a few (thousand) new arrivals at the Zoo! 🐜🍃 A new leafcutter ant colony recently moved into the Bayer Insectarium, and these tiny farmers are already hard at work. Guests can spot them marching leaf-by-leaf on a vine in their window exhibit now. The window also offers a peek at our invertebrate keepers behind the scenes! Leafcutter ants don’t actually eat the leaves. They use their powerful mandibles to snip off pieces and carry them home to grow a special fungus. That fungus? It