▲Termite farmers fine-tune their weed control(arstechnica.com)
15 points by PaulHoule 5 days ago | 2 comments
▲gnabgib 2 hours ago
Paper https://www.science.org/content/article/how-fungus-farming-t... (3 points, 1 month ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45389736
▲kragen 2 hours ago
Spreading your own poop on weeds to keep them from growing, but without killing them, doesn't actually strike me as "surprisingly human-like".
▲genuineresponse 27 minutes ago
People compose and mulch their waste to control weeds regularly. Burying weeds under decaying master (including poop) is super common.