Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...by Miss Kate Hall. with the others, saying that it represents "a distinctly higher type of social life; they show more skill in architecture, may literally be said to have domesticated species of aphides, and may be compared to the pastoral stage of human progress--to the races which live on the produce of their flocks and herds. Their communities are more numerous; they act much more in concert; their battles are not mere single combats, but they know how to act in combination." In the southern counties a red ant is to be found, which may also be kept in captivity along with some of its slaves or "helps " (a brown species). The species which are completely dependent on their slaves do not occur in this country. Provided with one or two nests, the student may devise a course of observations as to the habits of ants that may last him for years. Much patience and the methodical writing down of what has been seen are necessary, if anything like a trustworthy piece of work is to be accomplished. "Ants, Bees, and Wasps,' International Science Series. It must not be thought, however, that new discoveries can be made off-hand. Should the possession of an ant's nest rouse a wish to have more than a superficial knowledge of the ways of ants, the student should read what has been done, and there is no book that can be more profitably consulted as an introduction to the study of ant life than the work by Lord Avebury, quoted above. The Inhabitants Of Ants' Nests We should be omitting one very remarkable point in the economy of ants if we were to neglect to say something of the "domesticated animals," "hangers on," and "scavengers," whose abode is either in the near neighbourhood of the ants' nest or actually insid...
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