Half hours with insects . , hence they seem to milk them,and the aphides are regarded as the ants cows. Some utilitarian ants treat them as domestic cattle, herding them, andeven carry this care of their flocks so far as to take them up 5 38 HALF ITOUIIS WITH INSECTS. [Packakd. in their jaws and carry tliem to a place of safety in theirnests, if clanger threatens. The injury done by aphides is incalculable. The WheatFig. 25. aphis at certain seasons, when extremely abundant,by its punctures, and theconsequent loss of sap,causes the crop to dimin-ish, the kernel being partlyremphigus. shrivelle
Half hours with insects . , hence they seem to milk them,and the aphides are regarded as the ants cows. Some utilitarian ants treat them as domestic cattle, herding them, andeven carry this care of their flocks so far as to take them up 5 38 HALF ITOUIIS WITH INSECTS. [Packakd. in their jaws and carry tliem to a place of safety in theirnests, if clanger threatens. The injury done by aphides is incalculable. The WheatFig. 25. aphis at certain seasons, when extremely abundant,by its punctures, and theconsequent loss of sap,causes the crop to dimin-ish, the kernel being partlyremphigus. shrivelled and lessened in weigl^t. The leaves of the elm, apple tree and currantare curled up, and the tree disfigured by them, while otherFig. 213. Fig.
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