Ants, Bees, and Wasps: A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social HymenopteraAppleton, 1913 - 448 pages |
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Page 27
... six in the morning , and she worked without intermission till a quarter to ten at night . I had put ber to a saucer containing larvæ , and in this time she carried off no less than a hundred and eighty - CHARACTER - INDUSTRY . 27.
... six in the morning , and she worked without intermission till a quarter to ten at night . I had put ber to a saucer containing larvæ , and in this time she carried off no less than a hundred and eighty - CHARACTER - INDUSTRY . 27.
Page 48
... contain the usual organs , which , however , are very easily overlooked by the side of the gigantic crop . I have therefore been much interested in receiving a second species of ant , which has been sent me by Mr. Waller , in which a ...
... contain the usual organs , which , however , are very easily overlooked by the side of the gigantic crop . I have therefore been much interested in receiving a second species of ant , which has been sent me by Mr. Waller , in which a ...
Page 52
... contain water , even if no rain has fallen for some days , and must , therefore , serve to prevent the access of ants . The next mode of protection is by means of slippery Kerner : Flowers and their Unbidden Guests . surfaces . In this ...
... contain water , even if no rain has fallen for some days , and must , therefore , serve to prevent the access of ants . The next mode of protection is by means of slippery Kerner : Flowers and their Unbidden Guests . surfaces . In this ...
Page 71
... containing ordinary yelk . So far from the young insect being ' nearly perfect , ' and merely enveloped in a protective membrane , no limbs or internal organs are present . In fact , the young aphis does not develop in them until ...
... containing ordinary yelk . So far from the young insect being ' nearly perfect , ' and merely enveloped in a protective membrane , no limbs or internal organs are present . In fact , the young aphis does not develop in them until ...
Page 72
... containing living specimens of several species of plant commonly found on or around ants ' nests . To this some of the young aphides were brought by the ants . Shortly afterwards I observed on a plant of daisy , in the axils of the ...
... containing living specimens of several species of plant commonly found on or around ants ' nests . To this some of the young aphides were brought by the ants . Shortly afterwards I observed on a plant of daisy , in the axils of the ...
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Page 79 - On the 17th of June, 1804, whilst walking in the environs of Geneva, between four and five in the evening, I observed close at my feet, traversing the road, a legion of rufescent ants. They moved in a body with considerable rapidity, and occupied a space of from eight to ten inches in length by three or four in breadth. In a few minutes they quitted the road, passed a thick hedge, and entered a pasture ground where I followed them.