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Milky juice - - Lactuca Nectaries on leaves - Leaf - cutting ants - - - Ants as tree
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Milky juice - - Lactuca Nectaries on leaves - Leaf - cutting ants - - - Ants as tree
guards - Importance of ants in destroying other insects - - Har . vesting ants -
Solomon - - The Mischna - Meer Hassan Ali - - Sykes - - Moggridge - -
Agricultural ants ...
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Some species , such as our common Horse ant ( Formica , rufa ) , collect large
quantities of materials , such as bits of stick , fir leaves , & c . , which they heap up
into conical masses . Some construct their nests of DIVISION OF LABOUR .
Some species , such as our common Horse ant ( Formica , rufa ) , collect large
quantities of materials , such as bits of stick , fir leaves , & c . , which they heap up
into conical masses . Some construct their nests of DIVISION OF LABOUR .
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Sykes has described a species of Myrmica which builds in trees and shrubs , the
nest consisting of thin leaves of cow - dung , arranged like tiles on the roof of a
house ; the upper leaf , however , covering the whole . In some cases the nests
are ...
Sykes has described a species of Myrmica which builds in trees and shrubs , the
nest consisting of thin leaves of cow - dung , arranged like tiles on the roof of a
house ; the upper leaf , however , covering the whole . In some cases the nests
are ...
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It will be observed , however , that behind the hall ( b ) the entrance contracts ,
and is still further protected by a pillar of earth , which leaves on either side a
narrow passage which a single ant could easily guard , or which might be quickly
...
It will be observed , however , that behind the hall ( b ) the entrance contracts ,
and is still further protected by a pillar of earth , which leaves on either side a
narrow passage which a single ant could easily guard , or which might be quickly
...
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Nay , even many land plants have secured to themselves the same advantage ,
the leaves forming a cup round the stem . Some species have such a leaf - cup at
each joint , in others there is only a single basin , formed by the rosette of radical
...
Nay , even many land plants have secured to themselves the same advantage ,
the leaves forming a cup round the stem . Some species have such a leaf - cup at
each joint , in others there is only a single basin , formed by the rosette of radical
...
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Page 81 - 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.
Page 1 - The anthropoid apes no doubt approach nearer to man in bodily structure than do any other animals, but, when we consider the habits of ants, their large communities and elaborate habitations, their roadways, their possession of domestic animals, and, even in some cases, of slaves, it must be admitted that they have a fair claim to rank next to man in the scale of intelligence.
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| Title | Ants, Bees, and Wasps: A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social Hymenoptera International scientific series |
| Author | Sir John Lubbock |
| Edition | 13 |
| Publisher | Appleton, 1913 |
| Length | 436 pages |
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