. Nature study and life. Nature study. 86 NATURE STUDY AND LIFE carried about until the young emerge. They are thus easy to find and may be hatched and the different stages studied if this seem desirable. For insects they are of slow growth, requiring five or six months (German roach) or a year (American roach) to attain adult size. Ants. — This is a fascinating group of insects to study. Their social life and work, care of queens, eggs and young, Pupa. Fig. 37. The Little Black Ant a, female; b, male; c, worker: ^%%, larva, and pupa. (All enlarged. After Marlatt) their soldiers, their armies
. Nature study and life. Nature study. 86 NATURE STUDY AND LIFE carried about until the young emerge. They are thus easy to find and may be hatched and the different stages studied if this seem desirable. For insects they are of slow growth, requiring five or six months (German roach) or a year (American roach) to attain adult size. Ants. — This is a fascinating group of insects to study. Their social life and work, care of queens, eggs and young, Pupa. Fig. 37. The Little Black Ant a, female; b, male; c, worker: ^%%, larva, and pupa. (All enlarged. After Marlatt) their soldiers, their armies and battles, their cows, the plant lice, and the slaves that some species capture and bring home to do the menial work of their nests place them above all other insects. We shall study some of these in the proper place, but among household insects we must consider those kinds that are often troublesome about our homes. The little red ant, Monomorium pharaonis, is one of the smallest and often most annoying of household pests. It lives upon all sorts of human provisions, especially sweets and fatty foods, and seldom is a cover tight enough to exclude its seemingly innumerable hordes. A small black ant, M. minutiim, and a somewhat larger species, Tetramorium ccespitum, are troublesome much in the same. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hodge, Clifton Fremont, 1859-. Boston and London, Ginn & Co.
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