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destroyed by ZL. xzger only a few days before, I saw 
that the ants must be got rid of at once if this nest 
was to be saved. Accordingly I killed eight ants 
crawling on the nest material, then caught the queen 
in a glass jar, and lifted out the nest. There was 
only one ant in it, but I killed nine more in the 
cavity and tunnel and around the mouth of the 
latter. [hen with my trowel I shaved off the surface 
of the ground—it was grassy—over an area extend- 
ing to about a foot around the mouth of the tunnel 
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and cover, and with my pocket-knife made a little 
trench about an inch wide and an inch deep sur- 
rounding these, and nowhere approaching nearer to 
them than three inches. Into this trench I poured 
a mixture of turpentine and paraffin oil, the scent of 
which is distasteful to ants. 
After having made sure no ants remained inside 
the area enclosed by the trench, I put back the nest, 
placing it, without any superfluous nest material, on 
a disc of sacking which covered the disc of tin. 
Then I let the queen run in. She was very pleased 
to get back to her brood (the first larvee had spun 
their cocoons), and to find her honey-pot again full. 
June 30, 7 A.M. No ants in the nest or within 
