Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 546
ttle thorn-folk,and the plants leaves are saved. Once I saw a procession of the leaf-eaters ontheir way home from despoiling an unprotectedshrub. There were myriads in the line of march,each ant hidden beneath a bit of leaf, the size ofa clime, which it carried as one holds an um- A REMARKABLE… … ANTS MAKE THEIR HOMES WITHIN THESE THORNS. brella. From this fact the natives call such antsumbrella-ants. A photograph of the acacia thorns accom-panies this note. Charles Francis Saunders.Vol. XLL—47.
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