. Ants, bees, and wasps. A record of observations on the habits of the social Hymenoptera . three pieces being capable of separate rotation. ThLarrangement was kindly devised for me by Mr. Franci7Galton. I then connected the table with a nest of Lasiuaniger by a paper bridge a, and also made a paper pathacross the table, as shown in Fig. 28, divided into fivepieces corresponding to the divisions of the I did because I found that the ants wandered lessif they were provided with a paper road than if theywalked actually on the wood itself. I then placed acup containing larvae on the ta
. Ants, bees, and wasps. A record of observations on the habits of the social Hymenoptera . three pieces being capable of separate rotation. ThLarrangement was kindly devised for me by Mr. Franci7Galton. I then connected the table with a nest of Lasiuaniger by a paper bridge a, and also made a paper pathacross the table, as shown in Fig. 28, divided into fivepieces corresponding to the divisions of the I did because I found that the ants wandered lessif they were provided with a paper road than if theywalked actually on the wood itself. I then placed acup containing larvae on the table at B, and put an ant on 264 EXPERIMENTS WITH the larvae. She at once picked one up, and, with somaiittle guidance from me, carried it off to the nest,returning at once for another, bringing some friendswith her to help. When she knew her way, I graduallymoved the cup across the table along the paper path Fig. to M, placing it on a column five inches high. Afleia while the ants came to know the way quite well,and passed straight along the path from the nest tothe larvae at m. Having thus established a service olants, I tried the following experiments:— 1. I removed the piece of paper g f. This dis. ROTATING TABLE. 265 turbed them ; but they very soon re-established thechain. 2. I turned round the central piece of the table Gf, so that the paper G F was reversed, G being wheref had been, and vice versa. This did not seem todiconcert the ants at all. They went straight overthe paper as before, without a moments hesitation. 3. When some ants were between I and D, I rotatedthe outer circle of the table halfway round, which ofcourse carried the cup containing the larvae from L to ants took no notice of this, but went straight to L. 4. When some ants were between I and D, I rotatedthe table several times, bringing it finally to itsoriginal position. This disturbed them a good deal;but eve
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