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Scientific American, Vol. 42, No. 21 (May 1880) (1880)

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red to a specimen of the Desert snail from Egypt, it is scarcely inferior to honey in sweetness, and issues in (about eight or nine years ago) it attracted a good deal of chronicled by Dr. Baird in the " Annals of Natural History." limpid drops from the body of the insect, by two little tubes… … abdomen of an aphis first on one to see them crawl about. I could ANTS AND THEIR MILCH CATTLE. side and then on the other, and not get them to feed. One died immediately a little drop of the in the following May, having muchcovetedjuice issues forth,which the ant eagerly conveys been in confinement…

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