mall mammals and insects. They areof exceptionally large size and glossy black; their sting issevere and poisonous, and their bite most unpleasant, their severe. I hey live in colonics underground, and arc a gooddeal of a nuisance destroying cultivated plants and espe-cially fruit-tecs. The workers… … The Tarantula-killer. Life size jaws being big and sharp. In glands on the sides of thethorax they secrete an oily fluid, which, emitted as a meansof defense when they are captured, diffuses a markedly dis-agreeable odor. The famous leaf-cutting ants, which are widely distributedin the tropics, are…
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