Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . In the honey-secreting workers the abdomenis distended into a large globose bladder-like form. Fromthis honey an agreeable diink is made by the FORMICARI^. 185 The second subfamily, Ifyrmicarice, includes those speciesin which the two first abdominal segments are contracted andlenticular. In Myrmica the females and workers are armedwith spines, and the ocelli are absent in the workers. Thespecies are very small, and mostly bright colore
Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . In the honey-secreting workers the abdomenis distended into a large globose bladder-like form. Fromthis honey an agreeable diink is made by the FORMICARI^. 185 The second subfamily, Ifyrmicarice, includes those speciesin which the two first abdominal segments are contracted andlenticular. In Myrmica the females and workers are armedwith spines, and the ocelli are absent in the workers. Thespecies are very small, and mostly bright colored. Myrmicamolesta Say is found in houses all over the world. G. Lincecum describes the habits of the Agricultural Ant ofTexas, Myrmica molefacieyis. It lives in populous communi-ties. They build paved cities, construct roads, and sustaina large military force. In a year and a half from the timethe colony begins, the ants previously living concealed beneaththe surface, appear above and clear away the grass, herbage,and other litter, to the distance of three or four feet around theentrance to their city, and construct a pavement, .... con-sisting of a pretty hard crust about half an inch thick, formed?of coarse sand and grit. These pavements would be inun-dated in the rainy season, hence, at le
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