. Stepping stones to literature : a reader for sixth grades . hand, for two or three black ants were rushingabout in the greatest agitation, and one was perched motion-less with its own pupa in its mouth on the top of a sprayof heath, an image of despair over its ravaged home. Such are the facts, though they do not need confirmationby me, in regard to the wonderful instinct of making it be observed what a contrast the instinctive habitsof the red ants present with those of the continentalbrown ants. The latter does not build its own nest,does not determine its own migrations, does n
. Stepping stones to literature : a reader for sixth grades . hand, for two or three black ants were rushingabout in the greatest agitation, and one was perched motion-less with its own pupa in its mouth on the top of a sprayof heath, an image of despair over its ravaged home. Such are the facts, though they do not need confirmationby me, in regard to the wonderful instinct of making it be observed what a contrast the instinctive habitsof the red ants present with those of the continentalbrown ants. The latter does not build its own nest,does not determine its own migrations, does not collectfood for itself or its young, and cannot even feed itself:it is absolutely dependent on its numerous slaves. Thered ants, on the other hand, possess much fewer slaves; themasters determine when and where a new nest shall beformed, and when they migrate the masters carry the in Switzerland and in England the slaves seem tohave the exclusive care of the larvae, and the masters alonego on slave-making expeditions. ANECDOTES ABOUT ANTS. 39. VI. ANECDOTES ABOUT ANTS. Bt Sib John Lubbock.(1834- .) THE behavior ofants towards oneanother differs much,according to circum-stances,—whether, forinstance, they arealone,, or supported byfriends. An ant whichwould run away, inthe first case, will defend itself bravely in the second. On one occasion several ants belonging to one of mynests were feeding on some honey, spread on a slip of of them had got thoroughly entangled in it. I tookher and put her down in front of another individualbeloiiging to the same nest, and close by I placed a dropof honey. The ant devoted herself entirely to the honey, and neg-lected her friend, whom she left to perish. I then chloro-formed one, and put her on the board among her touched her, but while I watched them for two orthree hours, none took any particular notice of her. On the other hand, I have only on one occasion seen aliving ant expelled from her nest.
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