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  1. Stefan F. Wirth @[email protected] ·

    #Socialinsect #nests are #ecosystems with a #diversity of #organisms.
    In #leafcutterant #Atta #texana nests, mite #Histiostoma #bakeri reduces harmful #fungi in detritus chambers (S.F. Wirth & J.C. Moser 2008).
    A. Panchal et al. (2025) found #termite #Odontotermes #obesus to reduce harmful fungi from its food #funguscultivar using fungicides of #bacteria.

    ©#StefanFWirth

    Ref
    (2008)
    Proceed. 6th EURAAC

    (2025)
    doi.org/10.1126/science.adr2713

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    O. obesus, Nikhil More, 2020,
    creativecommons.org/licenses/b

    #socialinsect #nests #ecosystems #diversity #organisms #leafcutterant