Ants, Bees, and Wasps: A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social HymenopteraAppleton, 1913 - 448 pages |
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... strangers - Instances of kindness - A crippled ant - A dead queen - Behaviour to chloroformed friends Behaviour to intoxicated friends PARE 98 CHAPTER VI . RECOGNITION OF FRIENDS . Number of ants in a community - They all recognise one ...
... strangers - Instances of kindness - A crippled ant - A dead queen - Behaviour to chloroformed friends Behaviour to intoxicated friends PARE 98 CHAPTER VI . RECOGNITION OF FRIENDS . Number of ants in a community - They all recognise one ...
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... strangers also in the same manner . On September 2 , therefore , I put two ants from one of my nests of F. fusca into a bottle , the end of which was tied up with muslin as described , and laid it down close to the nest . In a second ...
... strangers also in the same manner . On September 2 , therefore , I put two ants from one of my nests of F. fusca into a bottle , the end of which was tied up with muslin as described , and laid it down close to the nest . In a second ...
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... strangers , and biting at the muslin which protected them . The next morning at 6 A.M. I found five ants thus occupied ... stranger by the leg , and was trying to drag her through the muslin . All day the ants clustered round the bottle ...
... strangers , and biting at the muslin which protected them . The next morning at 6 A.M. I found five ants thus occupied ... stranger by the leg , and was trying to drag her through the muslin . All day the ants clustered round the bottle ...
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... strangers . These ants , however , behaved quite unlike the pre- ceding , for they took no notice of either bottle , and showed no sign either of affection or hatred . One is almost tempted to surmise that the warlike spirit of these ...
... strangers . These ants , however , behaved quite unlike the pre- ceding , for they took no notice of either bottle , and showed no sign either of affection or hatred . One is almost tempted to surmise that the warlike spirit of these ...
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... stranger and carried her into the nest at 2.35 . A second stranger was similarly carried into the nest at 2.55 , a third at 3.45 , while the fourth was thrown over the edge of the board at 4.20 . Shortly after this two of the strangers ...
... stranger and carried her into the nest at 2.35 . A second stranger was similarly carried into the nest at 2.55 , a third at 3.45 , while the fourth was thrown over the edge of the board at 4.20 . Shortly after this two of the strangers ...
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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.