 | William Tufts Brigham - 1887 - 538 lehte
...down on the top of the slope, whence they rolled down to the bottom, where another relay of laborers picked them up and carried them to the new burrow....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... | |
 | William Tufts Brigham - 1887 - 548 lehte
...down on the top of the slope, whence they rolled down to the bottom, where another relay of laborers picked them up and carried them to the new burrow....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 Tufts Brigham - 1887 - 576 lehte
...locality again, I found both the old burrows and the new one entirely deserted, and I thought the}' had died off; but subsequent events convinced me that...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... | |
 | 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
...parties were at once drawn off from my garden to meet the new danger at home. The whole formicarium was disorganised. Big fellows came stalking up from...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... | |
 | Robin L. Chazdon, T. C. Whitmore - 2002 - 880 lehte
...small dog that had not itself shown any symptoms of that disease. Ch. V.] METHOD OF ERADICATING AXTS. 77 Instead of descending this with their burdens,...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... | |
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... picked them up and carried them to the new burrow. It was amusing to watch the ants hurrying out with bundles of food, dropping them over the slope, and rushing back immediately for more. They also brought out great numbers of dead ants that the fumes... 