Eva Nüßlein
- Der Reiher
- 2022
- acrylic on canvas
- 100×80 cm
- courtesy of the artist
Similar to a sourdough starter, a young leafcutter ant queen95 carries a piece of her mother’s fungus garden in her mouth when she leaves home. She spits it into a cave to inoculate her new nest.96
- Atta
- Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990, 600