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Leafcutter ant

Length

2 to 14 mm (workers, from the smallest to the largest; the queen is about 22 mm long)

Lifespan in the wild

10 to 20 years (queens, which may live longer; 40 wild colonies in Brazil lasted about 8 years on average)

Lives in

Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and 8 more places