Ants, Bees, and Wasps: A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social HymenopteraAppleton, 1913 - 448 pagini |
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... hives - Infatuation of bees - Want of affection - Behaviour to queen - Sentinels - The sense of hearing -- The sense of colour - Experiments with coloured papers - Power of distinguishing colours - Preference for blue - Influence of ...
... hives - Infatuation of bees - Want of affection - Behaviour to queen - Sentinels - The sense of hearing -- The sense of colour - Experiments with coloured papers - Power of distinguishing colours - Preference for blue - Influence of ...
Pagina 19
... hive . The queens of ants are pro- vided with wings , but after a single flight they tear them off , and do not again quit the nest . In ad- dition to the ordinary workers there is in some species a second , or rather a third , form of ...
... hive . The queens of ants are pro- vided with wings , but after a single flight they tear them off , and do not again quit the nest . In ad- dition to the ordinary workers there is in some species a second , or rather a third , form of ...
Pagina 119
... hive there may be as many as 50,000 bees , and in the case of ants the numbers are still greater . In the large communities of Formica pratensis it is probable that there may be as many as from 400,000 to 500,000 ants , and in other ...
... hive there may be as many as 50,000 bees , and in the case of ants the numbers are still greater . In the large communities of Formica pratensis it is probable that there may be as many as from 400,000 to 500,000 ants , and in other ...
Pagina 126
... hive the bees had some common sign or password . As evidence of this , he mentions ' that one of his hives had been for some days robbed by the bees from another : ' et je désespérais de conserver cet essaim , lorsqu'un jour , sur le ...
... hive the bees had some common sign or password . As evidence of this , he mentions ' that one of his hives had been for some days robbed by the bees from another : ' et je désespérais de conserver cet essaim , lorsqu'un jour , sur le ...
Pagina 127
... hive by means of peculiar signs . This sign serves to pre- vent any strange bee from entering into the same hive without being immediately detected and killed . It , however , sometimes happens that several hives have the same signs ...
... hive by means of peculiar signs . This sign serves to pre- vent any strange bee from entering into the same hive without being immediately detected and killed . It , however , sometimes happens that several hives have the same signs ...
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Ants, Bees, and Wasps: A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social ... Sir John Lubbock Vizualizare completă - 1884 |
Ants, Bees, and Wasps: A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social ... Sir John Lubbock Vizualizare completă - 1902 |
Ants, Bees, and Wasps: A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social ... Sir John Lubbock Vizualizare completă - 1894 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
૪ ૪ ૪ A.M. ditto abdomen Anergates antennæ aphides attacked August bees bisulphide of carbon blue paper carried cleaned compound eyes coxæ dragged Eciton eggs experiment feeding flew flowers following day Forel Formica fusca Formica rufa four Fourmis glass and bisulphide green paper half hive honey on blue honey on green hour inches insects instance journeys and brought larvæ Lasius flavus Lasius niger legs less males minutes moved Myrmica ruginodis nest of Formica nest of Lasius observations ocelli October once orange P.M. the friend paper bridge placed Polyergus pupa pupæ queen recognise result returned right pin round sanguinea seemed September slips of glass soon species specimens stranger Strongylognathus Tetramorium thorax three ants took a larva took no notice transposed the colours tried vermilion violet glass visits wasp watched window workers young دو وو وو
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Pagina 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.