The species is common in the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana, especially in catchment areas that sees periodic flooding from summer rains.

Apart from the sealed mound, with its air passages, the colony lives largely underground, the workers using the foraging tunnels to access feeding areas and carry the food they collect back to the nest.

In savannah woodland, leaves from Croton megalocarpus, Philenoptera violacea, Vachellia erioloba and Colophospermum mopane forms the bulk of the leaf litter collected, with elephant dung being favoured at the end of the dry season.

[3] When the comb is eaten by the termites, the fungal spores pass through their gut to complete the cycle by germinating in the fresh faecal pellets.

Clay particles are also collected for mound-building, and the area close to the mound is gradually raised slightly above the surrounding flat land.