Show habits OF BROWN ANT AI at injurious little insect found in all al cultivated lands lands forms rather hather settlements in corn fields mainly to IP hills cultivator Is not likely to tear up nests ri S 3 A the little blown ant noto notorious riou tor for its to corn and called conse conre tile the corn flold int ant is not by b n moans means limited to corn fields but la Is abundant in all 11 lands in pastures arid and roea dows in deare tor for ests along albig ha ht patI mays and in tile randy soil ot of dry dr sunny roads one finds it nesting in rotten nood or under bark logs oi 01 stones and enen een opening up its underground bur burrows roNis to tl 0 e surface bet between con the oriel briels ind and alks and pa pavements cements it Is over the ot of north america except tho the extreme and western portions from tho the tree line of tile the highest t moun bains to the sands of the shore here its home and habits baie been chiefly studied in corn fields and there it forms rather ci extensile tensho settlements I NI INI 4 f various stages of corn field ant mainly centering in the hills bills ot of corn several adjacent bills so occupied by it being connected connect fd by underground d channels by vay nay ot of chich members ut of tho the same may ma pass horn from hill to hill this is pard no doubt be cause in corn fields it is usually in possession pos of 0 plant lice ahe e on the roots of corn and chich aich contribute to the support ot of the ants the fluid surplus purples of their orn on floo bj ba partly iso also because iri in the corn hills it is un by the cultivator naich is likely to tear un no its nests it if the are established between the ros in the bui bu irois of this ant ore may ma find a rather mixed and haried consisting consist lne of the eggs juvae pupae m les females and of oc tho the ints ants themselves ies es together with ii ith the species of root lice harbored hi by tiem and certain kinds of mitts which share its habata eions on oil terms of 0 mutual it if not active friendship in cloi clover er fields it is nera ers dihel to have hao in its nests many man mealy meal bugs libigs of a species spi cies abich finiest the roots of the closer plant and these it treats as it does the root lice of the corn com seizing thora and carrying them awai when its nest is disturbed disturb Ld just is 3 it hurries out of eight with till its own ox n maggot like larn larvae ac its egg like pupae and its minute spherical white chite eggs the contents of the nest are not pre ci cla the same at all times of the scar car in tile the N winter inter one finda lit in it no ladles or pupae of the ants jb as a rule but only workers and larvae larae companion mites miles and eggs of the root lice in some of the larger mites nests one at 01 more wingless Nin gless queens or mother bents may ma bo be found although ve me bic bac not been able t sa tisia ourselves bursch es that this i lo 10 true of all ur r ei even ell most of the winter communities of this species A careful search and exploration of all the tunnels and chambers of large nests have often fallen to bung to light a single loueen sometimes however two to or more queens may be teen liliie contentedly content edli in the same i oi ker family performing their proper auric tiou dell of laving eggs for the increase of the colony colon besides these large composite and well I 1 shed co one may ma otten often lh fita alnie females in tle ile ground sonn some times loop arid and cometh es ea with ith a fe few or of their own oin cogs a tow few larae lanae and a small email number of work mork cro |