Show the ways of al ant it has long been recognized that the ant is a very intelligent insect aad nd leads a complicated social life there are classes among them pluto brats laborers and criminals the author of a recent work on entomology notes the curious habit of one species of the ant of turning some of their fellows into animated honey pots instead of placing honey in a comb as the bees do the ant selects a certain number of workers and disgorges dis gorges the honey obtained from the eucalypti eucalypt i on which it is deposited by and other insects into the throats of their Tic victims tims the process being continually repeated causes the stomachs of these workers to be distended to an enormous size this extraordinary habit was first discovered in the case of certain ants in mexico and subsequently shown to prevail in colorado it has been found to exist in australia also and mr frobart describes and figures these ants of the genus earn cam pont us that pursue this remarkable practice the ants containing honey are dav favorite food with the natives |