. Marvels of insect life [microform] : a popular account of structure and habit. Insects; Insectes. Marvels of Insect Life. habit lias bucotrn a siTious pest to the yrowers el Indian torn in the I'nited States, for the ants at hrst |>lant their â ⢠ecms â â (jut on thi' roots of eorntielil weeds that are read\- for tlieir reception before the maize is sown, and later transfer them to the roots of the latter plant. The aniovmt of fluid produced by such minute Insects mav not strike one as beinf; sufficient to make it worth while for the ant to trouble itself in the matter ; bat careful obse
. Marvels of insect life [microform] : a popular account of structure and habit. Insects; Insectes. Marvels of Insect Life. habit lias bucotrn a siTious pest to the yrowers el Indian torn in the I'nited States, for the ants at hrst |>lant their â ⢠ecms â â (jut on thi' roots of eorntielil weeds that are read\- for tlieir reception before the maize is sown, and later transfer them to the roots of the latter plant. The aniovmt of fluid produced by such minute Insects mav not strike one as beinf; sufficient to make it worth while for the ant to trouble itself in the matter ; bat careful observation lias shown that different siiecies emit from nin -en to forty- eij,'lit drops during twentv-four hours, .,nd when one considers the larfie number of green-tlv comprised in an ordinary colony of them it will be seen that the an{,'"'K'>t^' output must be considerable. To found a big colony of Kreen-fly it is only necessary to establish a singlo individual of these prolific, but sexually imperfect, females on a plant in spring. In a few weeks after she has begun to produce living young, the rate of increase is so enormous that, but for the attacks of other Insects and birds, all vegetation would soon be sucked dry. Huxley made a calculationâsince declared to be far * I'"ordii formicaria. fluid wax. ami is ijected at their eiiemie,. Ihi- was for long confused with the sugary lluiil known hoiiev-diw. and ani- ligurid rec, ivm:: from the-e -iphons alter the grein-lle «lth their allleimie. Ih.' llolleV-dew is received Iroin the extremitv of the hiiul-boipliou- at its friend and , the ant. It may be presmned that the that not possess (hese wax-secreting siphons ,iri' not -o subject to anmivance. This is certainly the ca-. with an uiuUTground species of grey c-oliuir. lives on roots, and is known rs the ant-aplii>. birause of the fact that it is found on the roots ol grasses in. or in the immedia
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