48 ANTS AND CHILDREN OF THE GARDEN 



FLORENCE. Most women don't like the Carpenter very 

 well, for once in a while it gets into the sugar bowl. 



ANT. Yes, it is learning to be a house ant and a city 

 ant since the discovery of America. Some ants are like 

 some men they move to town when they should stay in 

 the country. 



ALBERT. They say this ant is easily destroyed with a 

 little carbon disulphide solution if you can find the nest. 



KENNETH. They say the Carpenters never make trails, 

 but they do sometimes. I saw one an inch wide and many 

 feet long. It led to a watered lawn, and was as good a 

 trail as any ant could make, but notice the width. This 

 ant goes single file and doesn't need a wide trail. 



ALBERT. I know a Carpenter colony that is using a 

 cement walk as a trail for sixty feet. A colony like ours is 

 using the edge of the same walk and some small ants are 

 playing safe by using the crease down the center. 



DOROTHY. Why do so many of the Carpenters die? 



ANT. They are so large that they are easily seen, and 

 so you just think more of them die than others. Still, 7,000 

 a year may die on this lot. Ants don't live forever. 



ALBERT. The Carpenters have an awful time fighting 

 bugs, bees, flies and yellow jackets to keep them away from 

 that pile of fruit parings. The jaws are good weapons, all 

 right. 



CECIL. Yes. That ant drives these insects away just 

 like a dog chases chickens. 



ALBERT. You dragged the body of a Carpenter home. 

 Another one followed the trail, examined the body, and 

 then walked around among your ants. 



ANT. We are on good terms with that ant. You never 

 see us fight. 



