. Ants, bees, and wasps. A record of observations on the habits of the social Hymenoptera. Ants; Bees; Wasps. EXPERIMENTS. 261 Boon as she came to the end of the bridge she tui-ned round. I then modified the arrangement, placing between the nest and the food three similar pieces of wood. Then when the ant was on the middle piece, I trans- posed the other two. To my surprise this did not at all disconcert them. I then tried the arrangement shown in Fig. 24. Fig. a is a paper bridge leading to the nest; 6 is a board about 22 inches long by 13 broad, on which is a disk of white paper fastene
. Ants, bees, and wasps. A record of observations on the habits of the social Hymenoptera. Ants; Bees; Wasps. EXPERIMENTS. 261 Boon as she came to the end of the bridge she tui-ned round. I then modified the arrangement, placing between the nest and the food three similar pieces of wood. Then when the ant was on the middle piece, I trans- posed the other two. To my surprise this did not at all disconcert them. I then tried the arrangement shown in Fig. 24. Fig. a is a paper bridge leading to the nest; 6 is a board about 22 inches long by 13 broad, on which is a disk of white paper fastened at the centre by a pin c?; e is some food. When the ants had come to know their way 80 that they passed straight over the paper disk on their way from a to e, I moved the disk round with an ant on it, so that / came to g and g to /. As before, the ants turned round with the paper. As it might be possible that the ants turned round on account of the changed relative position of external objects, I next substituted a circular box 12 inches in diameter, open at the top, and. 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 Lubbock, John, Sir, 1834-1913. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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