Red Car Property: Harvester Ants

Photo: Diane Edwardson, September 2, 2015.  Yesterday, out of the corner of my eye, I saw something small and strangely shaped, moving at quite a clip across the trail near Adelbert.  (Click on photos to enlarge.) 

I'd seen Harvester Ants moving things much heavier and larger than themselves before, but this one was carrying a large piece of dry leaf, high above its head, more like a