Show ANT THAT CANS FOOD Capt Percy L. L Jones of the United States army medical corps makes an interesting statement about certain ants that attack the larvae of flies fifes They do so in a way which proves that they are no novices at nt the dure One will attack an extremity and apparently bite it and as soon as the larva begins to coil and makes efforts efforts ef of- forts to escape numbers of of others will immediately Jump upon it and In the course of a few moments the larva will be apparently dead I believe that the ant Introduces some venom Inthe in inthe inthe the act of biting formic acid in character character character char char- acter which preserves the larva as food until such time as the ant needs it cans it-cans cans it In other words |