Ants, Bees, and Wasps: A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social HymenopteraAppleton, 1913 - 448 pages |
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... interesting but also a very ex- tensive field of study . They are divided into three families : the Formicidæ , Poneridæ , and Myrmicidæ , comprising many genera and a large number of species . In this country we have rather more than ...
... interesting but also a very ex- tensive field of study . They are divided into three families : the Formicidæ , Poneridæ , and Myrmicidæ , comprising many genera and a large number of species . In this country we have rather more than ...
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... interesting obser- vations by Frederick Smith . Belt , Moggridge , Bates , Mayr , Emery , Forel , McCook , and others , they still present one of the most promising fields for observation and experiment . The life of an ant falls into ...
... interesting obser- vations by Frederick Smith . Belt , Moggridge , Bates , Mayr , Emery , Forel , McCook , and others , they still present one of the most promising fields for observation and experiment . The life of an ant falls into ...
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... interesting memoir on the subject , denies that the sting in Formicidæ is a reduced organ , and considers it rather as in an undeveloped condition . The ancestors of our existing Ants , in his opinion , had a large poison apparatus ...
... interesting memoir on the subject , denies that the sting in Formicidæ is a reduced organ , and considers it rather as in an undeveloped condition . The ancestors of our existing Ants , in his opinion , had a large poison apparatus ...
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... the eggs of workers were , moreover , all males . It became therefore an interesting question whether 1 Zeit . ¡ . wiss . Zool . , vol . xxviii . p . 586 . the same is the case among ants ; and my 36 EGGS LAID BY FERTILE WORKERS.
... the eggs of workers were , moreover , all males . It became therefore an interesting question whether 1 Zeit . ¡ . wiss . Zool . , vol . xxviii . p . 586 . the same is the case among ants ; and my 36 EGGS LAID BY FERTILE WORKERS.
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... interesting from the great age of the workers , about ten larvæ were hatched , but only four reached the pupa state . Of these one disappeared ; the other three I secured , and on examination they all proved to be males . The nest of ...
... interesting from the great age of the workers , about ten larvæ were hatched , but only four reached the pupa state . Of these one disappeared ; the other three I secured , and on examination they all proved to be males . The nest of ...
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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.