. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). (J Perhaps no creatures are more indifferent to tlie world outside their own than ants. They liave no idle moments. Tliere are so many interestino; features of their daily life tliat it is liard to suo-- gest one for special study. I think, liowever, that our boys and girls will like best to learn about their cows and liow tliey take care of tliem. Along any roadside where plants are growing you will find aphids or ])]ant-lice. These little insects are u
. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). (J Perhaps no creatures are more indifferent to tlie world outside their own than ants. They liave no idle moments. Tliere are so many interestino; features of their daily life tliat it is liard to suo-- gest one for special study. I think, liowever, that our boys and girls will like best to learn about their cows and liow tliey take care of tliem. Along any roadside where plants are growing you will find aphids or ])]ant-lice. These little insects are useful to ants in nuich the way that cows are to people. They provide food for them. Have you ever noticed a sticky, shiny substance on the leaves of plants ? Sometimes it drops from the trees on the paved streets. This is honev-dew which ants like so well a n d which 'aphids give them. There are little tubes on the backs of the aphids. You can see them bv looking through a microscope. They are called honev tubes^ as it was supposed that the honey-dew came from them ; but this is not so. Ants take very good care of the aphids. In the picture you will see a "cow shed " which one kind of ant builds for them. It is on a twig of dog wood. Wlien I found it the ants were crowding in at the little door which *you see in front. 1 suppose they were hungry-. Do the ants that build these " cow sheds " live in many places in Xew York State? We hope to lind out from our Junior Naturalists. 478. Vagahond-(j(ill on 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 Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station. Ithaca, N. Y. : The University
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