Show ants and ana their uses during 13 12 months spent inthe in the australian colonies in the years I 1 had bid more ore opportunities titles than anve were r e pleasant ot of studying the habits of hiim ants these insects insect as ia well known are not only a nuisance but an absolute jest pest in hot countries mun i tries they alij in a p ja iada and destroy de st roy everything ey e r athing in their road in justice to the ih 9 ants I 1 am bound however to a admit that I 1 have found them useful in more aka ways ys than or one ci for instance I 1 bought an opossum sin rug from a native I 1 soon became P painfully A aware ofine of the fact that it literally swarmed with fleas and iia other oilier Y vermin in vain did I 1 acock of iff pepper p even turpentine seemed to have no effect beyond increasing them the eckless activity 9 of these irritating settlers at basti in despair 1 throw threw my lay rug rag down on 04 so an a ant hill ahl la in lesa than half balf an ho hour 12 r every flea and objectionable parasite was eaten J but the rug ang of ants ante I 1 there therefore fort fora hung bung it on a mimosa bush bash and as soon as the au ante is were suspended they hastened ed to a leave eave the rug and descended b by the bush as best they ibey could again I 1 had bad killed billed a snake in tasmania man i a and wished to cle clean and bleach the skeleton which I 1 intended to have hae mounted as a necklace I 1 left the ii body near an ants nest in a fewA few ours there was no not a vestige Tese tige of flesh on 11 tho the bones the su soon did thereat the rest Gent lemans magazine |