THE LANGUAGE OF ANTS 



way its wings began to move violently, and their buzz- 

 ing, together with the attitude of the body and of every 

 member thereof, expressed the creature's fear. These 

 varied as the bee became more thoroughly entangled, 



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Fig. 61 ANTS IN ATTITUDE OF 



COURAGE, ANGER, AND ALAR.M 



now waxing, now r waning, until the audible notes pro- 

 duced by its enfeebled movements seemed to utter its 

 growing sense of danger and dread. 



Meanwhile, and the interval was rarely brief, Madam 

 Argiope underwent a striking change. She had been 

 enjoying peacefully a dejeune of cold Diptera, taken 

 through the fibres of a silken saclet in which her prey 

 was encased, and which hung upon the upper part of the 



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