A sweaty bearded man was making his way through the 19th century Nicaraguan jungle, when he stumbled upon a trail of ants. The explorer, Thomas Belt, noticed the ants were carrying leaves. As Belt so often did on such occasions, he got out his notebook and began to draw them. When he looked closer, he saw that the ants were not eating the leaves, as thousands before him had supposed — in fact, they were feeding them to something: fungi. Belt was the first Westerner to record ant agriculture...
