Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 237
the eggs deposited by thesovereign-mother being at once seized by the workersand conveyed to special or nursery cells, where the young areduly tendedand broughtup. Once ayear, at thebeginning ofthe rainy sea-son, wingedtermites ap-pear in thehive as de-velopments ofcertain of theeggs laid by the… … Fig. 2. The Queen Ant ; and the WorkersCarrying away the Eggs. What I Saw in an Ants Nest 213 communities, the privilege of sex being thus associatedwith the important and seK-denying work of perpetu-ating the species or race in time. Sooner or later —a termite family takes about a year to grow — a…
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