NATURE'S CRAFTSMEN 



secretion are attended and solicited in the same manner 

 as aphids. So also are some honey-yielding leaf-hoppers. 

 Cocci and beetles are preserved within the nest, and if 

 not reared are at least domesticated and adopted for the 

 sake of certain animal products that they yield, and 

 which serve as food. Both these insects, like the aphids, 

 may be seen in the early spring flocking together in a 

 warm corner of an ants' -nest beneath a stone. On 

 being disturbed, the ants seize them and run into hid- 

 ing precisely as they do with aphids. But the story of 

 these other "ant-cows" must for the present remain 

 mitold. 



