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Show J ; fHE BORN LOSER DEAMqM-- . AT THrS By.ARTSANSTM . fcWSttW f 7R5 IS -- o BAB- Y- I'M A UTILE 1H0RMWPLEJ 9"; ' ARE VJE S-r- I OF CASH Tell Me Why SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1967 Why Do Ants Live in Colonies? Z U ) By A. LEOKUM derground. Every ant1 colony Win the Britannka has one or more queens. Her Jnnkir Encyclopaedia for school purpose is to reproduce and and home. Send your questions, thus increase the size of her name, age, address to "Tell Me colony. The queen is taken care Why!" care of this paper. You of by the worker ants who must include your Zip Code. In bathe and brush and feed her case of duplicate questions, the and carry her eggs away as author will decide the winner. she lays them. Another common ant i$ called J Today's winner is: Jooi Nagy, I, Lorain, Ohio , Pharaoh's ant. It is believed to have lived in Egypt originally, Hv UETMD.AHL Not only do ants always live but is now found almost everyin colonies, but the way they where in the world. This ant I GOT a these colonies is one of lives in the walls and crannies J SPECIALON organize & the most fascinating things of houses. It eats any kiixf of THESE STORM. 1 RUBBER- S- J about them; They may hve in food that is in the house. It is ' 7WO colonies of several hundred very hard to get rid of. lVi) ' thousand or in colonies as small The Amazon ants are called ants." The work- 89 twelve individuals! They "slave-makin- g may have their homes entirely iflrsin an Amazon colony are underground, or in wooa, or in all soldiers. They can not gatha high mound, or in an acorn. er food or tend, to the young. Let's consider a few different So they must raid other ants types of ams and their living to get slaves to do this work. habits. The Formica schaufussi They attack the nests of is a small black ant that is ants, kill any that try to resist common in the United States. them, and carry the cocoons It builds small ant hills, but and larvae to their own homes. By DICK CAVALU most of this ant's house is un-- When the black ants come out , BUGS BUNN- Y- "JtoSORIY,'' MINUTE J MOW BUGS, I-ABOUT 6W06- JUST DONT 17 NEED I "YOU V LACES, LIVER PILLS, TOOTH- - T FVE I I ' SCWAM! HOWCAnN DWATJ . XGET ( 1 J TOTTi NOW , jl - DETEST VIOLENCE IBUT EWIVE ME J I WAIT A M lY SUTPPEI? BACK?, Nffn M fU i If j, wl rTSj M' I THINK ITS GQ&T THATMCQB AHD MORE BEN HEAB1N0 EA&IE&AP5BBM5 BCGN eVEBY A LOTABOUT THE POPULATION BXPLOeiCN. why we say rr "Cash" is usually ,kept in a box of some kind: The word goes back to the old French' word "casse," which was the box in which money was kept. In time, "casse" came to mean money or "cash" itself. FUN TIME The Chuckle Box Answer to yesterday's Puzzle. ick: My sister and I know Box: Portugal, Iceland, Sweden,:, everything in the world. Jack: What's a velocipede? Win the Britannica World AtDick; That's one of the things ' las or Yearbook of Events. Send my sister, knows, your riddles, jokes to: Riddles, Captain: What did the seasick Jokes, 'Tell Me Why!" Give passengercsay when you asked your Zip Code, Today's winner hffii if he wanted anything? is: Steward : He said bring me an Kathy Johnson, Franklin island. REDEYE AT THAT RATE YA. of the cocoons they will do the work of toe Amazon colony! Another interesting type of ant is called the mushroom growers. These ants cut circles from leaves, carry them back to their nest, chop up the leaves and plant fungus on it. Each kind of ant grows its own kind of fungus,' and an the ants in the colony feed on the fungus. There are hundreds of other kinds of ants who have organized their life in interesting ways, but their life is always based on a colony. 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