 Such a column is of enormous length, and contains many thousands if not millions of individuals. I have sometimes followed them up for two or three hundred yards without getting to the end. They make their temporary habitations in hollow trees, and sometimes...  The American Naturalist - Page 5701900Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Belt - 1874 - 452 lehte
...carefully in their jaws. Here and there one of the light-coloured officers moves backwards and forwards directing the columns. Such a column is of enormous...although many columns were outside, some bringing in the pupae of ants, others the legs and dissected bodies of various insects. I was surprised to see... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1882 - 550 lehte
...They make their temporary habitations in hollow trees, and sometimes underneath large fallen trucks that offer suitable hollows. A nest that I came across...although many columns were outside, some bringing in the pupae of ants, others the legs and dissected bodies of various insects. I was surprised to see... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1890 - 552 lehte
...their temporary habitations in hollow trees, and sometimes underneath large fallen trucks that oifer suitable hollows. A nest that I came across in the...although many columns were outside, some bringing in the pupae of ants, others the legs and dissected bodies of various insects. I was surprised to see... | |
 | Sir Arthur Everett Shipley - 1899 - 646 lehte
...of concealment, and there clustered together in a compact mass like a swarm of bees. Belt says : " They make their temporary habitations in hollow trees...although many columns were outside, some bringing in the pupae of ants, others the legs and dissected bodies of various Insects. I was surprised to see... | |
 | 1900 - 1016 lehte
...known by all the common workers moving in one direction, many of them carrying the larva and pupa; carefully in their jaws. Here and there one of the...least a cubic yard in bulk, and contained hundreds of thou sands of individuals, although many columns were outside, some bringing in 1 The Naturalist in... | |
 | James Richard Ainsworth Davis - 1904 - 332 lehte
...following account of ants of the sort in regard to this matter (in A Naturalist in Nicaragua]: — "They make their temporary habitations in hollow trees...although many columns were outside, some bringing in the pupae of ants, others the legs and dissected bodies of various insects. I was surprised to see... | |
 | William Morton Wheeler - 1910 - 696 lehte
...(Original.) a, Male in profile ; 6, dorsal aspect of head. ants : " They make their temporary habitation in hollow trees, and sometimes underneath large fallen...hanging from the roof, but reaching to the ground below. b c • '. ; i , ? d a Fio. 147. Castes of Acnmatus schmitti ; drawn under the same magnification.... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - 1910 - 1056 lehte
...errática. liollow trees or similar situations, where the insects may be seen, according to T. Belt, " clustered together in a dense mass like a great swarm of bees hanging from the roof." The harvesting habits of certain ants have long been known, the subterranean store-houses of Mediterranean... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - 1910 - 1054 lehte
...errática. hollow trees or similar situations, where the insects may be seen, according to T. Belt, " clustered together in a dense mass like a great swarm of bees hanging from the roof." The harvesting habits of certain ants have long been known, the subterranean store-houses of Mediterranean... | |
 | 1910 - 1122 lehte
...crralica. hollow trees or similar situations, where the insects may be seen, according to T. Belt, " clustered together in a dense mass like a great swarm of bees hanging from the roof." The harvesting habits of certain ants have long been known, the subterranean store-houses of Mediterranean... | |
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