. Eyes and no eyes. eirtiny tongue to lick off the juice or oil, while they passthe food to the inner jaws, just as the bees andwasps did. You may also see them pause to stroketheir body with their front legs. Look closely atthese and you will see a small spur on a joint alittle way up the leg. This spvir has more thanfifty fine teeth on it, and there are some coarseteeth on the leg itself. These are the ants brushand comb. She scrapes herself with them, and thendraws them through her outer jaws, or inandibles,to clean them. 1 AlfTS AND THEIR IT0NEY-C0W8. 77 She has very small eyes, and always
. Eyes and no eyes. eirtiny tongue to lick off the juice or oil, while they passthe food to the inner jaws, just as the bees andwasps did. You may also see them pause to stroketheir body with their front legs. Look closely atthese and you will see a small spur on a joint alittle way up the leg. This spvir has more thanfifty fine teeth on it, and there are some coarseteeth on the leg itself. These are the ants brushand comb. She scrapes herself with them, and thendraws them through her outer jaws, or inandibles,to clean them. 1 AlfTS AND THEIR IT0NEY-C0W8. 77 She has very small eyes, and always uses herantennae to find out anything she wants toknow. These stand out in front of her curiousflat head, and are very mysterious ants want to talk to one another they touchtheir antennae, and in some strange way they cantell each other where to go and what to do. The Garden-ants live much more undergroundthan the Hill-ants, but you may often see themsunning themselves in the garden, or cutting off. ANT TICKLING PLANT LICE FOR HONEY. blades of grass with their mandibles to line theirnests, or tearing a spider or fly to pieces. Theyoften seem to run hither and thither as if theydid not know what they were doing, but if youwatch you will And that each one has an are carrying things into the nest, othersare climbing the stalks of the flowers to sip theirhoney. As these honey-laden ants go home, if theymeet with an ant which has been doing other workand is hungry, the well-fed ant will squeeze honeyout of her throat to feed her friend. For it seems tobe a rule among ants that each one helps the other. 78 INSECT LIFE. And now you must watch day by day till yousee a much more ^^onclerful thing. You will re-member that we saw in the first lesson little plant-lice called Aphides sucking juice out of the stalksof plants. But we did not notice that they havetw^o little horns at the end of their bodies. Asthey suck and suck they become too full, and thesweet
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