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45. A stick caterpillar. has a double row of spines down its back. It feeds upon the bases of the flowers ; but instead of throw- ing away the tops, it fastens them with a thread of silk to the spines, and, thus covered, none but the sharpest eyes would see anything but a tuft of disarranged flowers. Black ants are often seen running up the stem and over the leaves of goldenrod, and it will repay one well to look 44 OUTDOOR STUDIES. carefully to see what these shrewd fellows are doing. Not unco...mmonly they will be seen attending a little herd of honey bugs, 58 which are feeding quietly, like a grazing flock, upon the leaves or stem of the plant (Fig. 46). Queer little fellows these honey bugs are, with their broad, blunt heads held down in bovine posture, high keels behind them, and a double row of branching spines down their backs. Odd behavior it seems to see an ant walking about among them, stroking and patting them gently with its feelers. What is the ant doing? Taking care of his cattle; treat- ing them kindly, like a good herdsman, because it pays.
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