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... swarm takes place as a thick cloud of all the male and female insects , rising together to a considerable height . The flight continues for several hours , usually circling round some tree or tower , and it is during the flight that ...
... swarm takes place as a thick cloud of all the male and female insects , rising together to a considerable height . The flight continues for several hours , usually circling round some tree or tower , and it is during the flight that ...
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... swarming takes place ; in this case the workers pull off the wings of the fertilised females . The majority of observers , how- ever , maintain that some of the females composing the swarm return to their native home to become mothers ...
... swarming takes place ; in this case the workers pull off the wings of the fertilised females . The majority of observers , how- ever , maintain that some of the females composing the swarm return to their native home to become mothers ...
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... swarm out in legions . Some of our native species also have the habit of excavating the in- terior of trees , though not on so extensive a scale . Honey - making Ant ( Myrmecocystus mexicanus ) .- This ant is found in Texas and New ...
... swarm out in legions . Some of our native species also have the habit of excavating the in- terior of trees , though not on so extensive a scale . Honey - making Ant ( Myrmecocystus mexicanus ) .- This ant is found in Texas and New ...
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... swarm of bees , hanging from the roof but reaching to the ground below . Their innumerable long legs looked like brown threads binding together the mass , which must have been at least a cubic yard in bulk , and contained hundreds of ...
... swarm of bees , hanging from the roof but reaching to the ground below . Their innumerable long legs looked like brown threads binding together the mass , which must have been at least a cubic yard in bulk , and contained hundreds of ...
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... swarm into the hive as long as any honey is to be found there . P. Huber records that a wall which had been partly erected by ants was observed by him- As though it were intended to support the still unfinished arched roof of a large ...
... swarm into the hive as long as any honey is to be found there . P. Huber records that a wall which had been partly erected by ants was observed by him- As though it were intended to support the still unfinished arched roof of a large ...
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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...
Página 27 - Lonsdale, informs me that he placed a pair of landsnails (Helix pomatia), one of which was weakly, in a small and illprovided garden. After a short time the strong and healthy individual disappeared, and was traced by its track of slime over a wall into an adjoining well-stocked garden. Mr. Lonsdale concluded that it had deserted its sickly mate; but after an absence...
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.