Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit . ?M KN ^ .^...k^. ^._^\j^. The Spring-cleaning. Vast hordes ot foraging ants visit a house in Triniiiad and drive out or kill all the vermin—cockroaches of the huge West Indianspecies, mice, rats, and big wasps—all the fleeing ones having ninnerous ants attached to them bv the jaws, so that they soon succumbedto the painful bites. 138 Marvels of Insect Life. the ants began to decamp, and soon not one was to be seen within doors. Butthe grass round the house was fuh of them ; and they seemed now feasting on thelemnants of their
Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit . ?M KN ^ .^...k^. ^._^\j^. The Spring-cleaning. Vast hordes ot foraging ants visit a house in Triniiiad and drive out or kill all the vermin—cockroaches of the huge West Indianspecies, mice, rats, and big wasps—all the fleeing ones having ninnerous ants attached to them bv the jaws, so that they soon succumbedto the painful bites. 138 Marvels of Insect Life. the ants began to decamp, and soon not one was to be seen within doors. Butthe grass round the house was fuh of them ; and they seemed now feasting on thelemnants of their prey, which had been left on the road to their nests ; and sothe feasting continued tih about four oclock when the blackbirds, who had neverbeen long absent from the calibasli and f^oisdoux trees in the neighbourhood, darteddown among them, and destroyed by millions those who were too sluggish to makegood their retreat. By five oclock the whole was over ; before sun-down the negro-houses were all cleared in the same way; and they told me they had seen the black-birds hovering about th
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