San Juan Record | 1930-10-16 | Page 8 | Flesh-Eating Ants

rieth eating ants ant ulie the ant belongs to the sub u family of the genii with several subgenera suh sub geneia genera frequents nearly nil all parts of ail aili I C a these ants usually make only teni horary aoi ar nests but spend most of olioli time wandering in long files rhe size alles barles front quite minute forms to oui oer one half inch in length the hie mandl bles blei are aie very es strong and the ant 11 isa lias bas a powerful sting anda and a 11 able to kill animals or birds that hint it umi lome come upon these ants sometimes enter houses in search of vermin and on these occasions the people icare ca a till the alie tints are through the same anc corl tl type ot of lint ant occurs in almost all tile tropical countr countries leq except on islands the female Is without wings which its distribution to islands tole lanila impossible