Ants, Bees, and Wasps: A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social HymenopteraK. Paul, Trench, & Company, 1882 - 448 pagini |
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Pagina 4
... once the right way is known , it is easy to induce them to go in . When I wished to start a new nest I dug one up , and brought home the ants , earth , & c . , all together . then put them over one of my artificial nests , on one of the ...
... once the right way is known , it is easy to induce them to go in . When I wished to start a new nest I dug one up , and brought home the ants , earth , & c . , all together . then put them over one of my artificial nests , on one of the ...
Pagina 15
... once highly - developed organs ; why , then , should he adopt the opposite view with reference to the rudimentary sting ? On the whole , I must regard the ancestral ant as having pos- sessed a sting , and consider that the rudimentary ...
... once highly - developed organs ; why , then , should he adopt the opposite view with reference to the rudimentary sting ? On the whole , I must regard the ancestral ant as having pos- sessed a sting , and consider that the rudimentary ...
Pagina 17
... with larger species they spring on to their backs , and then seize them by the neck or by an antenna . They also have the instinct of acting together , three C or four seizing an enemy at once , and then MODES OF FIGHTING . 17.
... with larger species they spring on to their backs , and then seize them by the neck or by an antenna . They also have the instinct of acting together , three C or four seizing an enemy at once , and then MODES OF FIGHTING . 17.
Pagina 18
... once , one by each of her legs or antennæ , and when they have once taken hold they will suffer themselves to be cut in pieces rather than leave go . Polyergus rufescens , the celebrated slave - making or Amazon ant , has a mode of ...
... once , one by each of her legs or antennæ , and when they have once taken hold they will suffer themselves to be cut in pieces rather than leave go . Polyergus rufescens , the celebrated slave - making or Amazon ant , has a mode of ...
Pagina 27
... once watched an ant from six in the morning , and she worked without intermission till a quarter to ten at night . I had put her to a saucer containing larvæ , and in this time she carried off no less than a hundred and eighty ...
... once watched an ant from six in the morning , and she worked without intermission till a quarter to ten at night . I had put her to a saucer containing larvæ , and in this time she carried off no less than a hundred and eighty ...
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