. Adventures with animals and plants. Biology. PROBLEM I. The Khids of Ajii7Jials of the Earth 47. Fig. 61 Apbids (plant lice) and ants on a steni. The apbids produce a sweet liquid (hojieydew) which the ants like, (hugh spencer) cleared out. You may have heard these bundles called ant eggs, but they are much too large to be eggs; they are the pupae. Most of you, too, have seen in fields, or at the edge of the forest, mounds of earth with many ants scur- rying about. These anthills may be two or three feet in diameter and may house several thousand insects. Underground, in the dark, passage- w
. Adventures with animals and plants. Biology. PROBLEM I. The Khids of Ajii7Jials of the Earth 47. Fig. 61 Apbids (plant lice) and ants on a steni. The apbids produce a sweet liquid (hojieydew) which the ants like, (hugh spencer) cleared out. You may have heard these bundles called ant eggs, but they are much too large to be eggs; they are the pupae. Most of you, too, have seen in fields, or at the edge of the forest, mounds of earth with many ants scur- rying about. These anthills may be two or three feet in diameter and may house several thousand insects. Underground, in the dark, passage- ways are tunneled; chambers of many kinds are dug out. There is much rush- ing to and fro with bits of food or soil. All this work is done by the workers. Every nest houses many workers, thou- sands of them, and one much larger ant known as the quee?i, a female who does nothing except lay eggs. Sometimes, there are ^several queens in one nest. And there are, too, a very small number of male ants that do no work. But the vast majority are workers. Some workers de- vote themselves to the care of the young. All the feeding of larvae and the moving about of larvae or pupae from room to room is done by the workers. Fig. 6i An aJit tejiding a mealy bug. Mealy bugs are relatives of the apbids. J hey also tnake honey dew. (amer7can can co.). 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 Kroeber, Elsbeth, 1882-; Wolff, Walter Harold, 1901-. Boston : D. C. Heath
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