Ants: Their Structure, Development and BehaviorColumbia University Press, 1910 - 663 pages |
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... probably owe their social and industrial superiority to their habitat . " The dominance of ants is clearly indicated by the small number of their enemies . They are preyed upon by comparatively few mammals , birds , reptiles , parasitic ...
... probably owe their social and industrial superiority to their habitat . " The dominance of ants is clearly indicated by the small number of their enemies . They are preyed upon by comparatively few mammals , birds , reptiles , parasitic ...
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... probably retain the habits once common to all ants . They resemble the lower races of men , who subsist mainly by hunting . Like them they frequent woods and wilds , live in comparatively small communities , as the instincts of ...
... probably retain the habits once common to all ants . They resemble the lower races of men , who subsist mainly by hunting . Like them they frequent woods and wilds , live in comparatively small communities , as the instincts of ...
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... probably dispose of more of the latter . Eminent economic entomologists like Taschenberg and Ratzeburg , who have studied the ants in the German forest preserves , are of the opinion that they are highly beneficial . A German law ...
... probably dispose of more of the latter . Eminent economic entomologists like Taschenberg and Ratzeburg , who have studied the ants in the German forest preserves , are of the opinion that they are highly beneficial . A German law ...
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... probably Ectatomma quad- ridens ) . He believed that he had seen a similar structure in the Cam- ponotine Lasius fuliginosus , and a few years later Lubbock ( 1877 ) figured what he took to be a stridulatory organ in L. flavus . Sharp ...
... probably Ectatomma quad- ridens ) . He believed that he had seen a similar structure in the Cam- ponotine Lasius fuliginosus , and a few years later Lubbock ( 1877 ) figured what he took to be a stridulatory organ in L. flavus . Sharp ...
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... probably serve to hold them in place in the vagina of the female . In addition to the genital valves there is a pair of small , hairy appendages , the penicilli , attached to the tergite , or dorsal plate of the tenth abdominal segment ...
... probably serve to hold them in place in the vagina of the female . In addition to the genital valves there is a pair of small , hairy appendages , the penicilli , attached to the tergite , or dorsal plate of the tenth abdominal segment ...
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abdominal Acromyrmex adult amber America antennæ ants Aphanogaster aphids artificial nests Atta Azteca beetles body brood Camponotinæ Camponotus caste cavity cells chambers chitinous cocoons colonies crater Cremastogaster deälated described Dolichoderinæ Dolichoderus dorsal Doryline Dorylus Eciton Ecophylla eggs Emery excavated feeding Forel Formica Formica rufa formicaries fungus fusca galleries ganglion gaster genera genus glands habits head host Hymenoptera instincts integument Iridomyrmex Janet larva larvæ larvæ and pupæ Lasius latter Leptothorax living males and females mandibles Mayr Miss Fielde molefaciens morphological muscles Myrmecocystus myrmecology myrmecophilous Myrmica Myrmicinæ North American nuptial flight observations opening organs Original pair parasitic peculiar pedicel petiole Pheidole plants Pogonomyrmex Polyergus polymorphism Ponera Ponerinæ portion Prenolepis probably queen region rufa sanguinea sclerites seeds seen segment social insects soil soldier Solenopsis species specimens sting structure subfamilies subgen subsericea subspecies surface Tetramorium thorax tion Tribe tropical ventral Wasmann wasps wings workers
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Page 246 - ... though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties; neither apprehending want himself, nor vexed with the endless complaints of his wife? He is not afraid of the misery of his children, nor is he contriving how to raise a portion for his daughters, but is secure in this, that both he and his wife, his children and grandchildren, to as many generations as he can fancy, will all live both plentifully and...
Page 541 - I observed him separate the tail and the head from the body part, to which the wings were attached. He then took the body part in his paws, and rose about two feet from the ground with it; but a gentle breeze wafting the wings of the fly turned him round in the air, and he settled again with his prey upon the gravel. I then distinctly observed him cut off with his mouth, first one of the wings, and then the other, after which he flew away with it unmolested by the wind.
Page 256 - On approaching, a dense body of the ants, three or four yards wide, and so numerous as to blacken the ground, would be seen moving rapidly in one direction, examining every cranny, and underneath every fallen leaf. On the flanks, and in advance of the main body, smaller columns would be pushed out. These smaller columns would generally first flush the cockroaches, grasshoppers, and spiders. The pursued insects would rapidly make off, but many, in their confusion and terror, would bound right into...
Page 506 - Wer will was Lebendigs erkennen und beschreiben, Sucht erst den Geist herauszutreiben, Dann hat er die Teile in seiner Hand, Fehlt, leider! nur das geistige Band.
Page 257 - Here and there one of the light-coloured officers moves backwards and forwards directing the columns. 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.
Page 312 - ... their entrance and exit near one end of the thorn, and also burrow through the partition that separates the two horns; so that the one entrance serves for both. Here they rear their young, and in the wet season every one of the thorns is tenanted ; and hundreds of ants are to be seen running about, especially over the young leaves. If one of these be touched, or a branch shaken, the little ants...
Page 312 - The leaf-cutting ants attacked the young plants, and defoliated them, but I have never seen any of the trees out on the savannahs that are guarded by the Pseudomyrma touched by them, and have no doubt the acacia is protected from them by its little warriors. The thorns, when they are first developed, are soft, and filled with a sweetish, pulpy substance ; so that the ant, when it makes an entrance into them, finds its new house full of food. It hollows this out, leaving only the hardened shell of...
Page 263 - The armies of E. vastator and E. erratica move, as far as I could learn, wholly under covered roads, the ants constructing them gradually but rapidly as they advance. The column of foragers pushes forward step by step, under the protection of these covered passages, through the thickets, and on reaching a rotting log, or other promising hunting-ground, pour into the crevices in search of booty.
Page 51 - It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.
Page 514 - The rasping stridulation of the queen can be heard when the insect is held a foot or more from the ear; to be audible the male and soldier must be held somewhat closer, the largest workers still closer; whereas the smaller workers and minims, though stridulating, as may be seen from the movements of the gaster on the postpetiole, are quite inaudible to the human ear. It is not at all improbable that all this differentiation in pitch, correlated as it is with a differentiation in the size and functions...