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presence of the sun, so favourable to the 
development of the larve ; in their ex- 
cursions and emigrating, to indicate their 
route ; in their recruitings, to determine 
the time of departure, &c. Let us still 
see of what further service they are to 
these insects. As ants do not possess 
the art of constructing magazines, and 
filling them with provisions, they cannot, 
like bees, draw their supply from the 
cells; they are, therefore, obliged to 
quit their habitation: those, who remain 
at home, expect their food from the la- 
bourers, who are gone abroad to procure 
it; the latter bring back small insects, or 
the bodies of such as they have dismem- 
bered. When they fall in with ripe 
fruit, or animals of tender flesh, as worms, 
lizards, &c. and are not able to convey 
them to the ant-hill, they feed upon their 
juices, and on their return to their habi- 
tation, their stomachs being filled with 
the liquid provision, they disgorge it in 
the mouths of their companions, which is 
effected in this manner : — the ant, who 
