They do not eat the leaves they carry. They feed them to an underground fungus they have cultivated for tens of millions of years, weeding it and dosing it with antibiotic bacteria.
A returning forager performs a waggle dance whose angle encodes the direction to food relative to the Sun and whose duration encodes the distance.
It is one of the few insects that can look over its shoulder, and it has a single ear on the underside of its body tuned to bat calls.
