. Homes without hands. : Being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction. Animals. 364 HOMES WITHOtri HANDS. is this insect which is so annoying and so useful to house builders. The ants sally forth in vast columns, at least a hun- dred yards in length, though not of very great width. On the outside of the column are the officers, which are continually running backwards and forwards, as if to see that their own portions of the column are proceeding rightly. The proportion of officers to workers is about five per cent., or one officer to t
. Homes without hands. : Being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction. Animals. 364 HOMES WITHOtri HANDS. is this insect which is so annoying and so useful to house builders. The ants sally forth in vast columns, at least a hun- dred yards in length, though not of very great width. On the outside of the column are the officers, which are continually running backwards and forwards, as if to see that their own portions of the column are proceeding rightly. The proportion of officers to workers is about five per cent., or one officer to twenty workers, and they are extremely conspicuous on the march, their great white heads nodding up and down as they run One of the large workers is now before me, and a most formidable insect it looks. Its head is round, smooth, and verj' large, and is armed with a pair of enormous forceps, curved almost as sharply as the horns of the chamois, and very shai-p at the points. Theii length is so great, that if straightened and placed end to end, they would be longer than the head and body together. They are beset with minute hairs, which, when viewed under the microscope, are seen to be stiff bristles, arranged in regular rings round the mandibles. The thorax and abdomen are but slender, and the limbs are long, giving evidence of great activity. In the. 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 Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889; Keyl, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1823-1871; Smith, E. A. (Edward Alfred); Pearson, G. (George). London : Longmans, Green, and Co.
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