Leafcutter ants have evolved to form complex societies, practicing a form of agriculture with the help of a fungus they cultivate. They cut and manipulate leaf fragments with their sharp mandibles and carry them to their fungal garden. A single ant can carry twenty times its body weight, and a colony can clear entire trees in less than a day. The artist Catherine Chalmers captures the beauty of this communal consciousness in her film Antworks, where the ants dismantle a plant and carry the fragments to their secret garden.