ANT QUEENS 



winged forms, the excitement among the workers, the 

 massing upon the ground, the ascent of neighboring 

 plants, the nagging of males and females by their escort 

 — all these are the same as heretofore described. But 

 both males and females take flight separately, and 

 seemingly without regard to one another. 



For a moment the queenlings would poise themselves 

 upon their perch, spread their wings, sway them back 

 and forth, and then rise in the air. Their manner 

 showed no mark of the feebleness and uncertainty of 

 inexperience, except, in some cases, a slight tendency 

 to a zigzag course for the first few yards. The flight 

 was thereafter, and commonly from the first also, strong 



A MAKUIACiE FLIGHT OF WINGED CARPENTER ANTS 

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