Ants, bees, and wasps : a record of observations on the habits of the social Hymenoptera . Diagram representing^ three tracks of an ant in another experiment. A, the first position of pencil and the food, towards which andfrom the base-line of nest 1 and 2 lead by nearly direct broadishwhite lines to A. When the latter was removed to b the ant, in itseffort to reach this, pursued the narrow white winding line endingin 3 -> ceding, the results of which are shown in the figures16 and 17, seem to prove that this species of ant, at any IN FINDING THEIR WAY. 257 rale, guides itself but little by
Ants, bees, and wasps : a record of observations on the habits of the social Hymenoptera . Diagram representing^ three tracks of an ant in another experiment. A, the first position of pencil and the food, towards which andfrom the base-line of nest 1 and 2 lead by nearly direct broadishwhite lines to A. When the latter was removed to b the ant, in itseffort to reach this, pursued the narrow white winding line endingin 3 -> ceding, the results of which are shown in the figures16 and 17, seem to prove that this species of ant, at any IN FINDING THEIR WAY. 257 rale, guides itself but little by sight. This, which Ihad not at all anticipated, seems to follow from thefact that after the pencil and tray of larvae had beenremoved but a short distance to the right or left, the Fiff. Another tracing showing a similar expeiiment. 1, 2, 3, the olirectbroad lines towards a ; and 4, the complicated track made whenreservoir of larvas was removed to B. aats on their journey to the shifted object travelledvery often backwards and forwards and around the spotwhere the coveted object first stood. Then they wouldretrace their steps towards the nest, wander hither and s 258 IMPORTANCE OF SCENT. thither from side to side between the nest and thepoint A, and only after very repeated efforts around theoriginal site of the larvae reach, as it were accidentally,the object desired at b. Another evidence of this consists in the fact that ifwhen ants (X. niger) were candying off larvae placed in acup on a piece of board, I turned the board round so thatthe side which had been turned towards the nest wasaway from it, and vice versa, the ants always returnedover the same track on the board, and, in consequence,directly away from home. If I moved the board to the other side of myartifi
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