Show THE WONDERFUL UL ANT I rii NTH TH Insignificant Insects A that make such a 1 mines mesa me II of or In mothers perfectly 1 1 k J well ell regulated p at III o oer tie r t hUn of ot the tho year r are aro nut not so soc Ya c f slow In fact rather mthr wise wlee for or their size lizI They ThO tu U II H IL degree d tIo the per PH perceptive tire powers human beings hu f one for tor or p of nuts ants aIn onn detect sound lI sound Then there are aro III Home seine kinds of ut nuts tint in nit t on the tho age principle that self Is I the first law lawf of f nature u a 1 thing that even the lest I Persons are Irl prone to do doAt doAt n nAI At AI least leant these thene m 1 some solos of nt the Ih for III liny tiny Iny by h Dr Ir William M lI Wheeler Wh ller llert of f t Harvard university In In an yesterday e y Hi lip huts him crime come to 10 title this city 1 f I upon UltOn the of ot tile the University r of f r Pennsylvania to 10 deliver n II course i I if of lectures under r the thO George Ih liar Har Harrison rison Foundation on an 11 Tho Develop D went and of or Animal joIn Ro i llIe Ur Dr In is ranked lanko l ns fill the forr tM authority In the country on Oil the on nil which In lie speaks here her Ho Ile Hoa tins ta a been Iwen nil 10 1 with wills the tho th 11 II number of ot other American Including the tho th of If and linn has been an 1 Investigator of or no note The queen of or nn 1111 tot ant l nt i colon olony sold said i lr 11 si speaking of ot tho the develop 1 of or such munch colonies 11 I 1111 Iff In is I at III first Aral t I 1 Just tutt II I ns as a soon Mn tut ns sho Ihn lus enough she picks pirk a eu meta main and 1111 they hey he halo hao ha n II flight hl When she chi comes comOs Wick bock IIII she rubs rUM ort oft her hr winge and nh i to In raise a I Although h the Ihl queen lives to 10 be he 13 years old ohl on 01 an nn average the only n She tho o fine does Is III H on out her hor nuptial flight which might b I be compared ti I to the hone of i f a 1 pair of or newlyweds newly eds J 1 At Ale soon us liS she hI gets bark back to earth iho rho takes lakes her hr abode In a II III of ot bark barkar ir lr other suitable place them thero ter fr nine months month There ulio eho ho raises R n I brood of ot workers those these workers go I rail out and bring In food to 10 tho the queen and andt t through the tho workers the Iho ant colony U Is kept up lip u w hoer After the Ule queen loses locos her wings the muscles undergo n physiological ch change l p I The 1 le of ot the Ihl enos 6 Into this the blood 1 The n bo 1 0 e comes MI NI light that she he would float on Oli water 1 Among the tb III common ants antu thre I Is n by hy sound Hy ny means if the lIe rasp on their breasts breast im Iran n pro produce fr I duce a scratching noise like ilkI the noise ono moke In filing ones unea nulls nails Hut It II ItIn Itla In la stilt still a H KM as to 10 o whether the ant ani can ran perceive K any rounds passing the air Thy They can un I sounds In III as It lane boon bien bu doubt Might lucre here Ur hr Wheeler paused to In pay IH II a compliment to 10 the Ih little hills Insert tr for tor their extreme eX cli 8 They have an all organ rew n u comb the use to In make their toilet and he 1111 says H they IhO arent lax about It either Another thing thine about ants ant Is III their lr commendable nm 11 n lIh 11 Many Ahoy Mall outs HIP are ar HO en constructed that oven even after th Ih they v have eaten Irn tooth food they can Ian hemme ber ente charitably deride to trans transfer transfer fer this nourishment lo Ut it a brother or sister Iller member of or their colony This Is 18 because they tho ore lire equipped IU I with two stomachs a social and an no Individual inn Ants Ant cat no n solid foods Should tiny they Ih y run across lIro II a II hit lilt fit of f solid stuff they break HII It II Into hut small mall particles anil take from It II null the Juices J Hires This juice ROOM goes Vent Into Inlo the tho social stomach and re remains mains there until the ant gels read ready to III open up Ul a small 11 valve and allow II It ItIn to tl through to 10 than Iho Individual stomach Only nl that food which enters the Individual stomach nourishes tin the tI ants body hOtly And 1111 whet when 1111 an all ant gets frets some somo food said alel Or Ur Wheeler It t let III nil all KO go until Into the Ih Individual l but hUI korpe sumo Home of ur It In the tho social stomach Then It circulates other ante rile the Ih food fond fondIn In the matter of or nests several sp ape lIs oi of or ants antH have shown themselves to be Is beof of fir fancy fan taste 10 to building the Ihl of ur woven together with pure silk lIk In the tho tropics tropic explained 1 Dr Ir Wheeler there hero are ants which hove learned to 10 make nests II ell III very fr much like tike wraps wasps nests nellI In South America l imo omo mike nests of ot paper full of Irregular 1 R a running la through the lito entire nut nr A t tea few te torme f have token to In o com Chin combining om billing bining with silk sonic some to 10 IIII U wry very pretty 6 ilke nests with tubular entrances It Il I hoe bus been it n how holY Ih Hi make mako silk lIk Homo students student of ot tho tto Insect have havo discovered In the Ihn th a old world orId I tropics u a L M species makes lit nul almost oat of oC pure silk II Ilk woven over leaves In caso WI ts f n break the Ille nest wo A find n I 1 that thai the ants linn line un tin on oil either side std 1 10 e of or the tho break In the tho nest pull It II to te together gether lIeth r weave u n silk IlIk Him film across arol the tho open surface by J using Its 1111 own lanau J That Is I the tho only Instance of ot an nn ant using n II ile Implement Severn Several s species e have boon been found which utilize t their as M spinning machines Commonest n of or n t nil all forma of ot nest Is III the little crater with II circular open opening ol opening cn ing Ina In the renter center Many Man not 1111 ore Me not satisfied however with excavating In III the Ihn soil Boll hut hilt accumulate n mesa mass of at n t I Re debris about the Ihn newt nent ne l The debris Is III of ot n a higher Ire than till tho other outer part of ot tho the nest and they Iho bring their young Into this debris debr e em cm employing It II ns lie an un u n Incubator All An Interesting reference was made by b Dr lr Wheeler to 10 a n kind of ot ant ani that I uso us e for th their lr nests neots this eho bu n u Insects have hAe mar made la In v w no od d Th t r e elb D 7 i known n n a 1111 s pe nto r ante al ls r I r 1 divided Into Soldiers ami an u and aM rut Philadelphia North Am ran |