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Posted: 2016-01-16T10:34:53Z | Updated: 2016-01-16T15:08:05Z

It took our leaf cutter ants almost 5 hours to break down these rose clippings, but it will only take you 1 minute to see the magic!

Posted by Houston Zoo on Friday, January 15, 2016

Leaf-cutter ants make mincemeat of rose clippings in fascinating time lapse footage posted online.

The tiny critters at Houston Zoo in Texas completely destroy the plant's pretty pink flowers, green leaves and stems.

"It took our leaf-cutter ants almost 5 hours to break down these rose clippings ," zoo staff posted to Facebook on Friday. "But it will only take you 1 minute to see the magic!"