The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 89
nge is the fact that each of these nosescan smell only a special thing. It is just as ifyou had a nose to smell pickle and another toVI—6 The upper ant is cleaning her antennabrushing her hair. The lower one is are for recognizing the eggs and immature antsin the nest. 284 SOME CURIOUS INSECTS AND… … ROTUNDS OF THE HONEY-ANTSA worker is feeding from one of the rotunds. No less an authority than Dr. McCook says theirtoilet articles consist of coarse- and fine-toothedcombs, hair-brushes, sponges, and even washesand soap. Their saliva is their liquid soap, andtheir soft tongues are their sponges.…
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