A single leafcutter can strip an entire sapling in minutes, carrying neat semicircles of leaf back to the colony.

Leafcutters carried strips of fresh leaf back to their underground nest.

In the clearing, leafcutter ants carried an enormous load of leaves back to their underground nest, working in precise, cooperative lines.

A leafcutter bee meticulously carries circular leaf pieces back to its nest.

A leafcutter ant carried a piece of leaf twice its size back to the colony.

In the summer, leafcutter bees carefully carry circular pieces of leaves back to their nests.

A waterlily leafcutter moth hovered above the pond, its translucent wings catching the sunlight.