Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Fio. 230.—Myrmica barbata. Feume.(Yellowish brown.) 450 ixskcts ai;i;oad. within an orchard. But alter a while the orchard was openedto cattle, who naturally ate the succulent grass-grain whichthe Ants had planted. Finding this to be the case, the Antsabandoned the orchard, and took to making their plantation inthe garden and other spots where the cattle could not disturbthem. The crops generally spring up about the beginning ofNovember. There arc many specimens of these Ants in the Brit
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Fio. 230.—Myrmica barbata. Feume.(Yellowish brown.) 450 ixskcts ai;i;oad. within an orchard. But alter a while the orchard was openedto cattle, who naturally ate the succulent grass-grain whichthe Ants had planted. Finding this to be the case, the Antsabandoned the orchard, and took to making their plantation inthe garden and other spots where the cattle could not disturbthem. The crops generally spring up about the beginning ofNovember. There arc many specimens of these Ants in the British Mu-seum. Their colour is yellowish brown. The first of the illus-. Fiu. 231.—Myrmica barbata. Workers.(Yellowish brown.) trations represents a fully developed male on the wing. Thesecond shows one of the fully developed females taking a flightat their swarming-time, while another is leaving the third illustration represents the workers carrying seeds tothe granary. CHAPTER V. BOMPILID^, SPHEGID^!, AND BEMBECIDJS. The insects which are placed under the titles which are at thehead of this chapter are popularly known under the general titleof Sand Wasps. They are so called because the females digholes in any earth, generally of a sandy nature, and place thereinthe insects on which their future young are to be fed. We haveplenty of them in this country; and any observer of Naturemust have seen and admired their industrious energy as theypursue the task which is the one object of their lives. The Pompilida3 are among the very fiercest of insects, andhave among them some of the largest of the Hymenoptera. Ihave not the least idea why this name
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