Humans lose again! We didn't invent farming. Here are some animals that beat us.
Some ants use natural pesticides to kill things that threaten the fungi they cultivate.
Source: Handwerk, Brian. "How Ants Became the World's Best Fungus Farmers." Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 12 Apr. 2017, .
Damselfish cultivate algae.
Source: Cossins, Daniel. "Earth - Amazing animal farmers that grow their own food." BBC, BBC, 2 Jan. 2015, www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150105-animals-that-grow-their-own-food. Accessed 25 Sept. 2017.
Several species of beetles farm fungi.
Source: Cossins, Daniel. "Earth - Amazing animal farmers that grow their own food." BBC, BBC, 2 Jan. 2015, www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150105-animals-that-grow-their-own-food. Accessed 25 Sept. 2017.
The black garden ant tends aphids in exchange for the honeydew the latter produces. The ants also keep the aphids from escaping by trimming their wings.
Source: Cossins, Daniel. "Earth - Amazing animal farmers that grow their own food." BBC, BBC, 2 Jan. 2015, www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150105-animals-that-grow-their-own-food. Accessed 25 Sept. 2017.
One Fijian ant species farms a the Squamellaria plant.
Source: Powell, Ellen. "The world's first known farmers weren't humans, but Fijian ants." The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2016, .
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