ANT QUEENS 



under their teachers' ward. They re-entered their 

 rooms, to appear from time to time, until the final sepa- 

 ration from the parent nest, to which this formal parad- 



V, ^ I. \i 



m\ 





SIAURIAGE FLIGHT OF ANTS 



Worker ants urging males and females to leave the home nest 



ing was preliminary. It is not known that the virgin 

 females of any species take part in the domestic econo- 



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