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A Termite's Nest on a Dead Tree. Note that a woodpecker has made a hole near 



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forests are the ants. Attention is at once attracted to the leaf-cutters 

 which toil ceaselessly through the night and during most of the day, 

 only intermitting their labors during the hottest part of the afternoon. 

 These ants make big mounds, sometimes twenty feet in diameter, with 

 numerous entrances. The underground galleries' are continually ex- 

 tended and modified for there is an excavating party at each mound which 

 carries little particles to a particular spot at some distance from the 



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Foraging Ants Crossing the Trail. 



