Ants, Bees, and Wasps: A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social HymenopteraAppleton, 1913 - 448 pages |
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... passed underground : all the education of the young , for instance , is carried on in the dark . Again , ants are essentially gregarious ; it is in some cases difficult to keep a few alive by themselves in captivity , and DIFFERENCES IN ...
... passed underground : all the education of the young , for instance , is carried on in the dark . Again , ants are essentially gregarious ; it is in some cases difficult to keep a few alive by themselves in captivity , and DIFFERENCES IN ...
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... passed under the river Parahyba at a place where it was as broad as the Thames at London Bridge . I confess , however , that I have my doubts as to this case , for I do not understand how the continuity of the tunnel was ascertained ...
... passed under the river Parahyba at a place where it was as broad as the Thames at London Bridge . I confess , however , that I have my doubts as to this case , for I do not understand how the continuity of the tunnel was ascertained ...
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... passed a thick hedge , and entered a pasture ground , where I followed them . wound along the grass without straggling , and their column remained unbroken , notwithstanding the ob- stacles they had to surmount . At length they ap ...
... passed a thick hedge , and entered a pasture ground , where I followed them . wound along the grass without straggling , and their column remained unbroken , notwithstanding the ob- stacles they had to surmount . At length they ap ...
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... passing continually to and fro over it to some food . The immersed ant lay there an hour before she recovered herself ; and during this time the marked ant passed by eighteen times without taking the slightest notice of her . I then ...
... passing continually to and fro over it to some food . The immersed ant lay there an hour before she recovered herself ; and during this time the marked ant passed by eighteen times without taking the slightest notice of her . I then ...
Page 100
... passed , each four times ; and two others also went by . During the following half - hour the two marked ants passed sixteen times , and three others ; but none of them took any notice . I immersed another ant for forty minutes , and ...
... passed , each four times ; and two others also went by . During the following half - hour the two marked ants passed sixteen times , and three others ; but none of them took any notice . I immersed another ant for forty minutes , and ...
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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.