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Page 21
At any rate , I never saw the Ecitons attack the nest of other species . The moving
columns of Ecitons are composed almost entirely of workers of different sizes ,
but at intervals of two or three yards there are larger and lighter - coloured ...
At any rate , I never saw the Ecitons attack the nest of other species . The moving
columns of Ecitons are composed almost entirely of workers of different sizes ,
but at intervals of two or three yards there are larger and lighter - coloured ...
Page 62
I followed them to their nest , and found it about two hundred yards from the one
of the year before . I poured down the burrows , as before , several buckets of
water with carbolic acid . The water is required to carry the acid down to the
lowest ...
I followed them to their nest , and found it about two hundred yards from the one
of the year before . I poured down the burrows , as before , several buckets of
water with carbolic acid . The water is required to carry the acid down to the
lowest ...
Page 64
I found their nests below to consist of numerous rounded chambers , about as
large as a man ' s head , connected together ... Along with them were pupa
WARNIM DIMIN NEST OF LEAF - CUTTING ANT and larv¿ , not gathered
together , but ...
I found their nests below to consist of numerous rounded chambers , about as
large as a man ' s head , connected together ... Along with them were pupa
WARNIM DIMIN NEST OF LEAF - CUTTING ANT and larv¿ , not gathered
together , but ...
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| Title | The Naturalist in Nicaragua 561. number of Everyman's library Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Rhys. Science Everyman's library. Travel and topography 561. number of Everyman's library: Science |
| Author | Thomas Belt |
| Contributor | Thomas Belt |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1911 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 7 jaan. 2010 |
| Length | 306 pages |
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