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A leafcutter ant carrying a flower petal inside a new exhibit in the American Museum of Natural History’s insectarium.Credit...

The scientists observed the insects mating near leafcutter ant nests, in which they laid their eggs.

With a "super-macro" technique, even tiny hairs on a leafcutter ant's head are visible Using a "super-macro" imaging technique that combines dozens of 2-D photographs to produce one 3-D image, the project will result in an online ant database called Antweb.

In the meantime, Chalmers had also been filming a war between two leafcutter ant colonies that were in close proximity to one another.