Show I DRIVER ANTS ANT IN AFRICA N They Have Hare Enormous Appetites and Are Dreaded by Everybody The Thc mo most t terrible of insects are arc lbs driver ants ant of West Africa said an a ent entomologist to the Washington f Sear ar They are arc to 10 o called caled because they drive before them while on the march all al other thing living creatures no animal being able to them No beast best however formidable t dares es to cross eros their track and and they wilf destroy in a single night all aU the pigs and nd Jowls owis wl on OD a farm far The he huge hugo Iguana Igan lizards fall fl victims to them as do snakes an nod and all aU other lher reptiles It I is I said sail that they bc begin in their j attack atack on the snake snake by biting Us Its It eyes and ant so EO blinding the prey Instead of running away vay writhes helplessly in one spot Natives of Africa assert that when the great python has bas crushed its It captive cap cap tive tivo te in its it folds fols it does dos not devour it i at once ones but snakes makes a cr circuit of at least a mile mie In diameter di dl ameter In order to s see whether an sin army of driver ants ant is on the Ibe march in the neighborhood neighbor neighbor- i hood If I so It glides glide 01 oft oJ and abandons its is I Il l prey which v will wi soon son be eaten by the tho ants nt I If I an army of tC these thea ants ant approaches a village vii vil vl- vl I lage tho the en entire tre population I li II compelled to tofee fee I Sometimes th the people n may be obliged to take taketo ke I to the tho water In order to save cave Ia e themselves The insect Insects travel in the tho night and on cloudy days e they are quickly killed by he e by rY ut tuu th J till thc bUU r out 1 while they are ma making Ir a a 1 journey they construct construct con con- i a I continuous arch over their path out I of earth agglutinated by h a fluid excreted from rom I Ither their ther mouths mouth In cloudy doudy weather an a arch for forthe forthe I Ithe the protection of the the marching workers Is i constructed of the tc bOles bodies of the larger soldier I ants at ho whose who e w widely distended Jaws long legs and protecting antennae intertwining form a sort of network In ca e of an alarm sharon the arch is Instantly broken and the iii Insects which composed it join other soliers soldiers on th the flanks fanks of the line lne which seem to be acting as scouts scout running about abut furiously In pursuit of the I enemy The alarm oy over over rt the arch is la renewed and the te column colemn pro proceeds i as a before I |