The leafcutter ant is a species of tropical ant that will cut pieces of leaves from trees and carry them back to their nest. The ants will chew up these leaves into a pulp and use the pulp to grow a type of fungus. Like a farmer, the ants harvest the fungus as a crop to feed the colony while the fungus grows and feeds on the pulp provided by the ants. Which type of interaction best describes the fungus and the ants?
commensalism
mutualism
parasitism
predation
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