Leaf Cutter Ant Debris Piles?


@myrmepropagandist I was at the American Museum of Natural History yesterday. Watching the leaf cutters, I noticed piles of brown dust-like material outside the glass bulbs that serve as fungus growing chambers. There were piles outside most of the chambers, empty, full, or partly full.

My guess is that they were piles of dead ants. The docent didn't know.

I'm wondering whether you have a second to tell me what they were.

Thanks!

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A little mushroom village in the hollow of a mossy stump right there on the trail—how could I resist?

#PNW #USA #WA #ThurstonCounty #CSF #Spring #Nature #Plants #Moss #Fungi #Mushrooms #Trails #TrailRunning #Outdoors #Photography #MobilePhotography

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April has passed, so how are my teams doing so far?
The Swallows are in last place in the Central League, 3.5 games behind the first place team.
The Rockies are in last place in the NL West, 11 games behind the team in next to last place.
Onward!
#baseball #MLB #NPB #YakultSwallows #ColoradoRockies

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Happy World Password Day. This offers a powerful lesson: If at first you don’t succeed, try again, and then try one more time with a question mark until you’re locked out. Then, wait 10 minutes and try again, all lowercase this time, until you finally give up and request an email to reset it.

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Sonnet 148 - CXLVIII
O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight;
Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
What means the world to say it is not so?
If it be not, then love doth well denote
Love's eye is not so true as all men's: no,
How can it? O! how can Love's eye be true,
That is so vexed with watching and with tears?
No marvel then, though I mistake my view;
The sun itself sees not, till heaven clears.
O cunning Love! with tears thou keep'st me blind,
Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find.

bot by @davidaugust

#sonnet #poem #Shakespeare

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I am so sad to hear Pope Francis has died. He was the absolute best of what the Catholic Church can represent - humble, standing up for immigrants & the poor and marginalized.
I truly believe he used his last strength standing up to forces of evil, including those twisting Catholicism.
May his actions and life be an inspiration to all of us who could take the easier route.
#popefrancis #francis #goodoverevil

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May we instead speak up and act on behalf of those less fortunate, in favor of justice and what is right. Pope Francis did so on Easter. After he met JD Vance, his deputy read an Easter prayer supporting migrants.

I don’t know that there is another figure who can fill the void in the same way as Pope Francis did, other than a new Pope who espouses similar teachings and actions. May he rest in peace and may we collectively step up to have similar impact.

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Chinese Finance Ministry Calls Trump’s Tariff Hikes ‘A Joke in the History of World Economics’
daringfireball.net/linked/2025…

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St. Patrick's Bridge, Cork
Photo: Keystone View Co. / U. of Indiana

Not sure of date, but a different library has another photo of Cork from the same publisher dated 1902

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Highway robbery as 'Historic Idaho sign goes missing days before donation to Museum of Idaho':

eastidahonews.com/2025/04/hist…

From the latest edition of the SCA Weekly News:
sca-roadside.org/news-and-advo…

#SaveOurSigns #SignPainting #Ghostsigns #Idaho

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Ted Cruz warns of midterm ‘bloodbath’ if Trump tariffs cause a #recession

Texas senator’s comments another sign of #Republican unease over ‘reciprocal #tariffs’ and stock market plunge

But we will let the dear leader do what he wants… I don’t see a groundswell of republicans standing up to #trump and President #Musk and the heritage foundation in any meaningful way

#trumpcession #TrumpRecession

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…

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@dmnelson

Anyone who didn't vote, voted for Jill Stein or voted for trump are complicit and need to be held accountable for their action. Period.

I've encouraged people to make a list so they dont' forget who in their circles or communities voted for trump or helped him get elected because they're going to start complaining and pretending they didn't and they need to outted

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Spring in Hyde Park by Alice Taite Fanner (1865 - 1930)
Oil on Canvas
(The Stapleton Collection)
I spent most of yesterday in the beautiful sunshine in Hyde Park. It looked very much like this with the World and his wife pouring in.

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Wow, Minnesota! #HandsOff #Politics

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#HandsOff Santa Fe #NewMexico getting under way.
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We the People means everyone!

#HandsOff #StopTrumpNow #RepublicansOwnAllOfThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain

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A note to the billionaire bullies from State College PA: #handsoff
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😢 Zelensky: 3-year-old Timofiy, unfortunately, died today in the hospital. 7-year-old Radyslav. Arina, who will also be 7 forever. 9-year-old German. 15-year-old Danylo. 15-year-old Nikita. 15-year-old Alina. Konstantin, who will be 16 forever. Nikita is 17 years old. These are the children who were killed by a Russian ballistic missile strike on Kryvyi Rih.

Unfortunately, 9 adults also died. Another 62 people were injured in the strike, including 12 children.

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Hey lookit - another one of them “administrative mistakes”!

Forty-five years ago, Jose Francisco Garcia Rodriguez fled Cuba on a ship provided by the United States for people seeking refuge from the Cuban government.

While on his way to work on Monday, the 73-year-old grandfather was picked up by immigration enforcement agents near his Lafayette home. He sits today in an ICE processing center in Pine Prairie, a village in rural Evangeline Parish. - Claire Taylor
theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/…

"Suppose your doctor suddenly insisted that you needed to follow a strict diet and exercise regimen. He said he realized you had a serious problem when he divided your height by your birthday, and it came out way too high. You would probably decide that you need a new doctor.

This is basically the story of Donald Trump’s new round of import taxes (tariffs) on our trading partners. Trump somehow decided that trade was bankrupting the country, even though we were creating jobs rapidly, the economy was growing at a strong pace, and inflation was slowing to normal rates when he took office."

cepr.net/publications/dr-trump…

#CEPR #DeanBaker #BeatThePress #USPolitics #Trump

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Absolutely glorious and thrilling to see the solar eclipse today in London ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆 ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆 ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆 ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆

Made a solar projector using a colander! And also watching the Greenwich live stream: rmg.co.uk/whats-on/online/sola…

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A better photo of the #eclipse!
☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆💛 ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆💛
☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆💛 ☀️🌕🌙🌞🔆💛
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Very relevant note: yeah the opsec is terrible, but the rationale of using Signal was to hide from the official record, and that's worse.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/s…
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When you get invited to the NatSec group chat....

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Playing Boycott Bingo at the supermarket. ‘Jackpot!’ come the cries from different aisles as the Sort Stjerne (the black star) confirms that our favourite snack, our preferred coffee beans, those loo rolls on special offer, are European. And therefore Not American.

#Denmark
#Boycott
#USPol

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Remember when Pete Hegseth said anyone reckless with sensitive government information should be fired on the spot and criminally prosecuted?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

#ButHerEmails

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