The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 130
ANTS CUTTING OFF LEAVES OF THE COTTONWOOD. vaded by a curious, tremulous motion. ThenI saw that the individual leaves were not sta-tionary. Picking up a twig from the ground, Itouched one of the leaves and found to myamazement that there was a brown ant under itabout as long as my little… … THE HEAD OF A LEAF-CUTTING ANT.To show the sharp, saw-like jaws. was held in the mandibles of an ant in such away as to conceal the body of the insect, and theants were coming down the tree. The discoverycame upon me with a shock. I had stumbled on HOW THE HORSE-FLY BITES It is not unusual, while…
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