. Animal behaviour. Animals behavior. INTELLIGENT BEHAVIOUR IN INSECTS 127 selected a new place, and began to dig again. This hole was also filled in ; she looked once more at the spider, and started a nest in a new place. This, in tarn, was soon abandoned, as was a fourth. The fifth beginning was made under a leaf that lay close to the ground, but after twenty minutes' work this place also was abandoned and a sixth started. This, how- ever, was the final choice, and after forty-five minutes spent in digging it was ; This description shows an amount of apparent fastidious- ness
. Animal behaviour. Animals behavior. INTELLIGENT BEHAVIOUR IN INSECTS 127 selected a new place, and began to dig again. This hole was also filled in ; she looked once more at the spider, and started a nest in a new place. This, in tarn, was soon abandoned, as was a fourth. The fifth beginning was made under a leaf that lay close to the ground, but after twenty minutes' work this place also was abandoned and a sixth started. This, how- ever, was the final choice, and after forty-five minutes spent in digging it was ; This description shows an amount of apparent fastidious- ness which is quite irreconcilable with the hypothesis that the behaviour is merely instinctive. Not less fastidious are some wasps in the temporary closm'e of the hole with a stone or pellet of earth, the operation being repeated several times. Fig. 19.—Solitary Wasp using a stone to beat down the earth over its nest (after Peckliain). with different covers before the insect seems to be satisfied ; while in other cases the hole is hidden by bringing earth in such quantity as to render the place indistinguishable from the rest of the field. But in one case observed by Dr. Peckham, intelligent procedure was carried so far as ap- parently to involve the use of a tool, the same behaviour having been independently observed in the same genus (Am- mojjhila) by Dr. S. W. Williston of Kansas University. " Just. 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 Morgan, C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd), 1852-1936. London : Arnold
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