. Ants; their structure, development and behavior. any as three larvae atonce. Among the Mexican species of the genus Eciton, that to whichthey apply more specially the name of soldados [E. prcedator], may benoticed for the habit which it has of invading the habitations of thecountry. These visits ordinarily take place at the beginning of the 1 These Syrphids probably belong to the Conopid genus Stylogastcr, ofwhich Townsend (1897) found three species hovering over troops of Eciton,in the lowlands of the Rio Naubla, in the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 262 ANTS. rainy season, and almost always d
. Ants; their structure, development and behavior. any as three larvae atonce. Among the Mexican species of the genus Eciton, that to whichthey apply more specially the name of soldados [E. prcedator], may benoticed for the habit which it has of invading the habitations of thecountry. These visits ordinarily take place at the beginning of the 1 These Syrphids probably belong to the Conopid genus Stylogastcr, ofwhich Townsend (1897) found three species hovering over troops of Eciton,in the lowlands of the Rio Naubla, in the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 262 ANTS. rainy season, and almost always during the night. The expeditionaryarmy penetrates the habitation which it proposes to visit at many pointsat once, and for this purpose divides itself into many columns ofattack. One is apprised very >oon of their arrival by the householdcommotion among the parasitic animals. The rats (Mits tcctoruun,the spiders, the cockroaches (Periplaneta australusicc Fab.), abandontheir retreat> and seek to escape from the attacks of the ants by
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