. Ants, bees, and wasps. A record of observations on the habits of the social Hymenoptera. Ants; Bees; Wasps. 270 KELUCTANCE OF ANTS turning as in the previous experiment, ten ants, one after another, continued their course, thus coming out of the box at the end furthest from the nest. When ten ants successively had, under these circumstances, gone wrong, to make the experiment complete, I tried it again, everything being the same, except that there was no box. Under these circumstances five ants, one after the other, turned directly the table was rotated. From these experiments, therefore, it
. Ants, bees, and wasps. A record of observations on the habits of the social Hymenoptera. Ants; Bees; Wasps. 270 KELUCTANCE OF ANTS turning as in the previous experiment, ten ants, one after another, continued their course, thus coming out of the box at the end furthest from the nest. When ten ants successively had, under these circumstances, gone wrong, to make the experiment complete, I tried it again, everything being the same, except that there was no box. Under these circumstances five ants, one after the other, turned directly the table was rotated. From these experiments, therefore, it seems clear that in determining their course the ants are greatly influenced by the direction of the light. March 27.—I let out two ants imprisoned on the 2oth, and placed them on the larvae, which I put on a column 7 inches high, covered with blue paper, and communicating with the nest by the paper path (a. Fig. 29) arranged as usual, but supported on pins. At first I arranged it as shown below, placing the larvae at M, on a table 18 inches in diameter, Fig. 29. so that the ants, on arriving at the larvae, made nearly a semi- circle round the edge of the table. I then gradually moved ~ the larvae to m' and afterwards to m". The ants, however, obviously knew that they were going unnecessarily round. They ran along the paper bridge in a very undecided manner, continually turning round and often coming down 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 Lubbock, John, Sir, 1834-1913. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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