Field, Forest And Farm; Things Interesting to Young Nature-Lovers, Including Some Matters of Moment to Gardeners And Fruit-Growers
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Thus, one suck at a time, the nutritive juice is distributed until the entire brood is fed. "But carrying the larvae into the sun and feeding them will not suffice: they must also be kept in a state of extreme cleanliness. The workers bestow upon their charges the same tender care that the mother cat exercises toward her kittens. Over and over again they lick the nursling's body to give it perfect whiteness, and they tug cautiously at the wrinkled skin when the transformation draws near. "Befor...e casting this skin the larva spins itself a cocoon of silk, elongated and cylindrical in shape, pale yellow in color, very smooth, and compact in texture. Under cover of this protecting sac, the worm becomes a nymph. In this form the ant as- 258 FIELD, FOREST AND FARM sumes its final shape, lacking only strength and a little firmness. All its members are distinct, but enveloped in a fine membrane which it must strip off to become a perfect insect. "If you disturb an ant-hill you will see the workers hastening to carry away and put in a safe place cer- tain cylindrical bodies having somewhat the appear- ance of grains of wheat and very inappropriately called ant-eggs.
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