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insects to vegetable or animal diet Change of diet at different 

 stages of life Need of nurses by the young of the Social 

 Hymenoptera Livelihood without industry Slave makers 

 Honey Ant Analogy between its economy and that of bee in 

 storage of food Harvesting ants in the East, in Europe, in 

 America Time of feeding Instruments of nutrition High 

 adaptation of Lepidoptera to floral diet Means of procuring 

 food Stratagem of ant-lion 34 



CHAPTER III. 



HERMIT HOMES. 



Methods of formation of homes constitute remarkable phase of 

 habits and economy of insects A home necessary by reason 

 of nature of life of insects Habitations of solitary insects for 

 their young Solitary bees Solitary wasps Galls Habita- 

 tions of solitary larvoe for own use Homes of solitary 

 architects being perfect insects for own use, and also for 

 that of their young Trap-door and other spiders 71 



CHAPTER IV. 



SOCIAL HOMES. 



Diversity of method of insect architecture, its beauty and size 

 The word architecture as applied to this portion of insect 

 economy Societies of social caterpillars Three types of nests 

 of ants Home of common Wood Ant external conformation 

 internal plan doors formation and regulation of society 

 A solitary " queen" as founder of a colony Singularity of 

 Wood Ant in preference for open-air life Mason Ants Extra- 

 ordinary dimensions of homes of Saiiba or Coushie Ants 

 Their leaf-cutting propensities Mushroom-growers Mason 

 Ants of New World ; their disks, roads, refuse heaps, 

 store-rooms, nurseries, lumber-closets, position as farmers, &c. 

 F.fuliginosa and other carpenters Standing army of Bull's 

 Horn Acacia Ants as guardians of other plants Remark- 

 able pensile nests of Crematogaster, Myrmica Kirbii, 

 CEcophylla sinaragdina, &c 118 



