a leafcutter

A leafcutter marches by, holding a scrap of leaf aloft like a sail.

The leafcutter is a rusty brown ant with spines along its back and a pair of sharp, scissor-like jaws.  It carries a disk of green leaf many times its own size high over its head, bobbing along a path worn bare by thousands of others like it.  The leaves are not food, but bedding for a fungus garden deep in the nest, which the colony tends as carefully as any farmer.

Where it is found

Found in The Jungle Walk: Crossing the Ditch, The Jungle Path ×5

Carries and wears

Nothing.

Keywords: leafcutter