THE CLEVER FAMILY OF ANTS 



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crisscross, the baby ant is carried until the leaves 

 are firmly woven together and the little living 

 spinning machine is allowed to rest. 



Often I found on Barro Colorado a black ant 

 about half an inch long with great sickle-like 





After Wheeler 



Fig. 29. Ant weavers 



jaws. These jaws were usually carried wide 

 apart, but they could be brought together with a 

 snap that I could hear several feet away. These 

 were the army ants, the Ecitons, and one of my 

 reasons for going into the jungle was the hope that 

 I might find their nest, the most wonderful of all 

 the ant nests. 



