. Economic entomology . 1' V: Diagram of tube of Cteniza fodiens, or of an allied species. More recent observations have shown that there are several species of different genera that make these remarkable structures, an interesting account of which will be found in Mr. Moggndee's recent work on - Harvesting Ants and Trap-door ; From this work it appears that the contrivances of these creatures are more complex than was formerly supposed. The first known piece of ingenuity was that the insect stoppered the hole mto its burrow by a trap-door fitting like a cork, which was loaded wit
. Economic entomology . 1' V: Diagram of tube of Cteniza fodiens, or of an allied species. More recent observations have shown that there are several species of different genera that make these remarkable structures, an interesting account of which will be found in Mr. Moggndee's recent work on - Harvesting Ants and Trap-door ; From this work it appears that the contrivances of these creatures are more complex than was formerly supposed. The first known piece of ingenuity was that the insect stoppered the hole mto its burrow by a trap-door fitting like a cork, which was loaded with earth on the outside, sufficiently heavy to make it shut of its own weight, a contrivance which facilitates its concealment when mosses, etc., grew on the earth so placed. One of these is here
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