Ants, Bees, and Wasps: A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social HymenopteraAppleton, 1913 - 448 pages |
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... inches square , and at a distance apart of from to of an inch ( in fact just sufficiently deep to allow the ants freedom of motion ) , with slips of wood round the edges , the intermediate space being filled up with fine earth . If the ...
... inches square , and at a distance apart of from to of an inch ( in fact just sufficiently deep to allow the ants freedom of motion ) , with slips of wood round the edges , the intermediate space being filled up with fine earth . If the ...
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... inches square , and at a distance apart of from to of an inch ( in fact just sufficiently deep to allow the ants freedom of motion ) , with slips of wood round the edges , the intermediate space being filled up with fine earth . If the ...
... inches square , and at a distance apart of from to of an inch ( in fact just sufficiently deep to allow the ants freedom of motion ) , with slips of wood round the edges , the intermediate space being filled up with fine earth . If the ...
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... Formica rufa , or some nearly allied species , I have found that a hand held as much as 18 inches above the ants was covered with acid . But even when the poison 1 ן I is not thus fired at the enemy from a distance ORIGIN OF THE STING . 15.
... Formica rufa , or some nearly allied species , I have found that a hand held as much as 18 inches above the ants was covered with acid . But even when the poison 1 ן I is not thus fired at the enemy from a distance ORIGIN OF THE STING . 15.
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... inch in length . The male eggs are of a more brown complexion , and usually laid in March These dark eggs are not those of ants , but of aphides . The error is very pardonable , because the ants treat these eggs exactly as if they were ...
... inch in length . The male eggs are of a more brown complexion , and usually laid in March These dark eggs are not those of ants , but of aphides . The error is very pardonable , because the ants treat these eggs exactly as if they were ...
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... inches to two feet long , harbouring in the walls of our houses , and every now and then carrying off some of our children into their horrid dens . Most ants , indeed , will carry off the larvæ and pupæ of others if they get a chance ...
... inches to two feet long , harbouring in the walls of our houses , and every now and then carrying off some of our children into their horrid dens . Most ants , indeed , will carry off the larvæ and pupæ of others if they get a chance ...
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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.