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... honey , their companions devote themselves to the honey , and entirely neglect their friends in distress ; and when partly drowned , their friends take no notice . When chloroformed or intoxicated their own companions either do not heed ...
... honey , their companions devote themselves to the honey , and entirely neglect their friends in distress ; and when partly drowned , their friends take no notice . When chloroformed or intoxicated their own companions either do not heed ...
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... honey before a marked specimen of the former species ; but although she visited and revisited the honey during an entire day , she brought out no friends to share it ; and although in her journeys to and from the nest she happened to ...
... honey before a marked specimen of the former species ; but although she visited and revisited the honey during an entire day , she brought out no friends to share it ; and although in her journeys to and from the nest she happened to ...
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... honey . I then put three ants to the honey , and when each had sufficiently fed , I imprisoned her , and put another ; thus always keep- ing three ants at the honey , but not allowing them to go home . If , then , they could summon ...
... honey . I then put three ants to the honey , and when each had sufficiently fed , I imprisoned her , and put another ; thus always keep- ing three ants at the honey , but not allowing them to go home . If , then , they could summon ...
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... honey - like fluid , which they eject from the abdomen upon being stroked on this region by the antennæ of the ants . Mr. Darwin , who has watched the latter process , observes with regard to it , — I removed all the ants from a group ...
... honey - like fluid , which they eject from the abdomen upon being stroked on this region by the antennæ of the ants . Mr. Darwin , who has watched the latter process , observes with regard to it , — I removed all the ants from a group ...
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... Honey - making Ant ( Myrmecocystus mexicanus ) .- This ant is found in Texas and New Mexico . Capt . W. B. Fleeson ... honey - makers ; sole function to secrete a kind of honey in their large globose abdomens , on which the other ants ...
... Honey - making Ant ( Myrmecocystus mexicanus ) .- This ant is found in Texas and New Mexico . Capt . W. B. Fleeson ... honey - makers ; sole function to secrete a kind of honey in their large globose abdomens , on which the other ants ...
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Página 138 - A nest was made near one of our tramways, and to get to the trees the ants had to cross the rails, over which the waggons were continually passing and repassing. Every time they came along a number of ants were crushed to death. They persevered in crossing for some time, but at last set to work and tunnelled underneath each rail. One day, when the waggons were not running, I stopped up the tunnels with stones ; but although great numbers carrying leaves were thus cut off from the nest, they would...
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Página 300 - ... its load with a jerk, and quite disengaged it from the nest. It remained in this situation a short time, feeling about with the extremities of its wings, as if to be convinced whether the business was properly executed, and then dropped into the nest again.