. An introduction to zoology, with directions for practical work (invertebrates). XXVI JNSECTA : HYMENOPTERA 407 to a dark chamber where they are all kept in a little heap, and are daily licked over by their nurses, whose saliva is probably antiseptic and thus prevents the growth of fungi on the eggs; it also causes the eggs to stick together, and consequently they can be more quickly removed from one spot to another when Fig. 312.—Stages in the Life of the Yellow Meadow Ant (much enlarged). .E, egg; L, larva; C, cocoon ; P, pupa removed from cocoon ; pi, pupa seen from in front. T
. An introduction to zoology, with directions for practical work (invertebrates). XXVI JNSECTA : HYMENOPTERA 407 to a dark chamber where they are all kept in a little heap, and are daily licked over by their nurses, whose saliva is probably antiseptic and thus prevents the growth of fungi on the eggs; it also causes the eggs to stick together, and consequently they can be more quickly removed from one spot to another when Fig. 312.—Stages in the Life of the Yellow Meadow Ant (much enlarged). .E, egg; L, larva; C, cocoon ; P, pupa removed from cocoon ; pi, pupa seen from in front. The eggs may vary a little in size and shape, but no distinction has yet been demonstrated between those that will develop into the different kinds of individuals in the nest. The lanae which hatch out from the eggs are soft, blind, legless gi'ubs, narrowest at the head end, which is curved over (Fig. 312, L). The soft body behind the head is divided into thirteen segments, and is covered with very fine white hairs. The larvae have mouth-parts corresponding with those of the adult ant, but as they have no legs and cannot move, they are entirely dependent for their food on their nurses, who feed them on regurgitated liquid. As the larvae grow, and new larvae are hatched out, they are sorted by the nurse- ants according to size, and the different groups are placed in different chambers of the nest. All are kept clean by being licked over regularly, and occasionally they are moved from one part of the nest to another; probably being brought nearer the surface for warmth, or taken to a deeper chamber for more moisture and less light. The workers carry the larvae in their mandibles, picking them up very carefully, and shifting them until they have got them just into the right 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 resemb
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