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"In America there are large ants which can eat whole trees bare as a broom handle in a single night,"she wrote in the description.
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But in the same drawing, she incorrectly lumped together army and leaf-cutter ants.
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In the same plate, Merian depicted and described leaf-cutter ants for the first time.
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Merian was correct about the giant bird-eating spiders, ants building bridges with their bodies and other details.
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The image which also contained novel descriptions of ants, fascinated a European audience that was more concerned with the exotic story unfolding before them than the gender of the person who painted it.
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