 ... dropping them over the slope, and rushing back immediately for more. They also brought out great numbers of dead ants that the fumes of the carbolic acid had killed. A few days afterwards, when I visited the locality again, I found both the old burrows...  Guatemala: The Land of the Quetzal - Page 391by William Tufts Brigham - 1887 - 453 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Belt - 1874 - 452 lehte
...locality again, I found both the old burrows and the new one entirely deserted, and I thought they had died off; but subsequent events convinced me that...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... | |
 | William Tufts Brigham - 1887 - 548 lehte
...locality again, I found both the old burrows and the new one entirely deserted, and I thought they had died off; but subsequent events convinced me that...two hundred yards from the one of the year before. J poured down the burrows, as before, several buckets of water with carbolic acid. The water is required... | |
 | William Emerson Ritter, Edna Watson Bailey - 1927 - 358 lehte
...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.... | |
 | Robin L. Chazdon, T. C. Whitmore - 2002 - 884 lehte
...locality again, I found both the old burrows and the new one entirely deserted, and I thought they had died off; but subsequent events convinced me that...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... | |
 | Thomas Belt - 2005 - 449 lehte
...locality again, I found both the old borrows and the new one entirely deserted, and I thought they had died off ; but subsequent events convinced me...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... | |
 | Thomas Belt - 1985 - 460 lehte
...locality again, I found both the old burrows and the new one entirely deserted, and I thought they had died off; but subsequent events convinced me that...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... | |
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