. Insect architecture. Insects. 276 [NSECT ARCHITECTURE. the wood-ants with more attention, transferred colo- nies of them to his artificial formicaries, plunging the feet of the stand into water to prevent their es- cape till they were reconciled to their abode, and had made some progress in repairing it. The fol- lowing is a figure of the apparatus which he used for this There is this remarkable difference in the nest of the wood-ants, that they do not construct a long co- vert way as if for concealment, as the yellow and the brown ants do. The wood-ants are not, like them, afraid
. Insect architecture. Insects. 276 [NSECT ARCHITECTURE. the wood-ants with more attention, transferred colo- nies of them to his artificial formicaries, plunging the feet of the stand into water to prevent their es- cape till they were reconciled to their abode, and had made some progress in repairing it. The fol- lowing is a figure of the apparatus which he used for this There is this remarkable difference in the nest of the wood-ants, that they do not construct a long co- vert way as if for concealment, as the yellow and the brown ants do. The wood-ants are not, like them, afraid of being surprised by enemies, at least during the day, when the whole colony is either foraging in the vicinity or employed on the exterior. But the proceedings of the wood-ants at night are well wor- thy of notice; and when M. Huber began to study. 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 Rennie, James, 1787-1867. London, M. A. Nattali
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