Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 242
ame general routine ofdevelopment. Certain rather special, and it may besaid extraordinary, habits of ants may, however, de-mand notice before we attempt a brief survey of theirinstincts at large. Few readers are unacquainted withthe Aphides, or plant-lice, those little wingless insectswhich infest… … What I Saw in an Ants Nest 217 as the ants are concerned, advantageous character havebecome estabhshed. Ants have been observed to strokethe tips of the bodies of the plant-lice with their atten-nae, this act causing theplant-lice to exude dropsof a clear, sweet fluid, ofwhich the ants are…
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