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Posted: 29 May 2022

Taken: 29 May 2022

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The Naturalist on the River •
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Henry Walter Bates •
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1863 •

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The whole arrangement of a Formicarium, or ant-colony, and all the varied activity of ant-life, are directed to one main purpose -- the perpetuation and dissemination of the species. Most of the labor which we see performed by the workers has for its end the sustenance and welfare of the young brood, which are helpless grubs. The true females are incapable of attending to the wants of their offspring; and it is on this poor sterile workers, who are denied all the other pleasures of maternity, and that the entire care devolves. The workers are also the chief agents in carrying out the different migrations of colonies, which are of vast importance to the dispersal and consequent prosperity of the species. The successful debut of the winged males and females depends likewise on the workers. I6t is amusing to see th activity and excitement which reign in the ant’s nest when the exodus of the winged individuals is takine place. The workers clear the roads of exist, and show the mot lively interest in their departure, although it is highly improbably that any of them will return to the same colony. The swarming or exodus of the winged males and females of the Sauba ant takes place in January and February, that is, at the commencement of the rainy season. They come out in the evening in vast numbers, causing quite a commotion in the streets and lanes. They are very large size, the female measuring no less than two inches and a quarter in expanse of wing; the male is not much more than half this size.. . . . Page 15

NATURALIST ON THE RIVER AMAZONS
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