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InctenLngseamyrn-3le,ilt-yest-ener-thederantld-ul-y ni ate er-ut-ery ereotisitlybe-?m-theentIm-ted,•eatrialtiedate,orrewIrenma*Ltle.Inksy.nag.•To-menran-ressoik.n aon®.rentfreeHOW ANTS MAKE SLAVES,%’arriorg Make Ualdn Afctt Inst Neste of I the Small Turf Aut.The warrior ant is a slave-making ipecies. It is a large red ant, and it xiakes raids against nests of the small rellow turf ant, a mild and docile race., arge numbers of which it carries off .o act as servants. But it does not deal fully grown turf ants; their hab-ts are formed and they woulcl.be uce-.ess for such a purpose. What the ftrarrior ant wants is a raw material, iVhich can be turned into thoroughly veil trained servants. So it merely tills the adult ants which strive to ppose Its aggression, and contents itself with trundling home to its own lest the larvae and pupae of the turf tnts which it has put to flight and van-inished. In time these grubs and co-:oons produce full grown yellow workers, which can be taught by the war-•ior ants to act as nurses and bouse-naids. I once saw in a garden in Algiers a great pitched battle going onbetween slavemakers and the family )f the future slaves, in which the i ground was strewn with the corpses of he vanquished. Not till the nest of lie smaller ants waB almost exterminated did they retire from the unequal contest and allow the proud invader to :arrv off their brothers and sisters In ! heir cocoons, asleep and unconscious.. Occasionally, by dint of mere numbers,| .hey. beat off the invader with heavy ; loss; but much more often the large ind strong-Jaw'ed warriors, andiestroy to a worker the opposing forces. They crush their adversaries’ heads with their vise-like mandibles. Meanwhile, within the nest :he other half of the workers—the division told off as special nurses—are otherwise employed in defending and protecting the rising generation. At lie first alarm, at the first watchword missed with waving antenae through the nest, “A warrior host Is attacking is!” they hurry to the chambers where lie cocoons are stored and bear them off in their mouths into the recesses of | ho nest, the lowest and most inacces-?il»le of all the chambers.—Strand Magazine.
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Lawrenceville Brunswick Gazette
Lawrenceville, Virginia, US
Thu, Sep 15, 1898
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