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The leaf cutter ants have nests that can go many meters underground. They have massive majors that can be more than 100 times more massive than a worker, and they bring topical leaves back to the nest and eat the fungus that grows on them. They currently live in tropical rainforests forests of Central and South America in underground nests. With the deforestation of those areas, when the trees come down in 100 years it will be a residential zone, when this happens the leaf cutter ants will live in a residential area with not many trees so they will start to change from leaves to grass. They will develop slits on their backs to make it easier to carry long slender grass than in their mandibles. Their color will change from brown to a green to blend in with the grass. The Nests won’t go as deep to not hit the possibly dangerous pipes underground.