. Ants; their structure, development and behavior. FIG. 273. a, Strongylognathns testaceus worker. (Original.) b, head of femaleof same ; c, S. huberi, head of worker ; d, Tetramorium cespitum L. host of 5. tes-taceus and liuberi. nally described by Forel (1874) from specimens taken in CantonVallais, Switzerland, on a warm slope near Fully, in the valley ofthe Rhone. More recently (iqood) he has published additional obser-vations on a colony from the same locality. He found that the workersof huberi are very numerous, that they will go forth in a closedphalanx, much like that of the amazons, a
. Ants; their structure, development and behavior. FIG. 273. a, Strongylognathns testaceus worker. (Original.) b, head of femaleof same ; c, S. huberi, head of worker ; d, Tetramorium cespitum L. host of 5. tes-taceus and liuberi. nally described by Forel (1874) from specimens taken in CantonVallais, Switzerland, on a warm slope near Fully, in the valley ofthe Rhone. More recently (iqood) he has published additional obser-vations on a colony from the same locality. He found that the workersof huberi are very numerous, that they will go forth in a closedphalanx, much like that of the amazons, and pierce the heads ofstrange Tetramorium workers placed near their nests and that they I ANTS. will also take up the pupae of the strange ants and carry them his more recent observations Forel found that the strange pup;ethus brought in were carried out by the host workers and cast behavior and the fact that no one has witnessed a spontaneousforay of huhcri, seem to indicate that these ants never voluntarily leavethe nest a
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