...down on the top of the slope, whence they rolled down to the bottom, where another relay of labourers picked them up and carried them to the new burrow....from the one of the year before. I poured down the borrows, as before, several buckets of water with carbolic acid. The water is required to carry the...

...and I thought they had died off; but subsequent events convinced me that the survivors had only moved to a greater distance. It was fully twelve months before my garden was again invaded. . . . I followed them to their nest, and found it about two hundred yards from the one of the year before....

...down on the top of the slope, whence they rolled down to the bottom, where another relay of labourers picked them up and carried them to the new burrow....before my garden was again invaded. I had then a number oí' rose-trees and also cabbages growing, which the ants seemed to prefer to everything else. The...

...had killed. A few days afterwards, when I visited the locality again, I found both the old borrows and the new one entirely deserted, and I thought they...cabbages. I followed them to their nest, and found it aboat two hundred yards from the one of the year before. I poured down the barrows, as before, several...

...down on the top of the slope, whence they rolled down to the bottom, where another relay of labourers picked them up and carried them to the new burrow....them to their nest, and found it about two hundred yai'ds from the one of the year before. I poured down the burrows, as before, several buckets of water...