ANIMALS THAT LIVE WITH ANTS 189 



Animals That Live With Ants. 



ALBERT. It seems that ants use some animals for food 

 and treat others as guests. Those that are called guests 

 are divided into three classes: 



1. Those the ants would drive away if they could. 



2. Those the ants don't care anything about, one way 

 or another. 



3. Those the ants like to have live with them. 

 ANT. Yes, and you might say the same of man. 

 ALBERT. How many kinds of the first two divisions 



together live with ants? 



CECIL. One man has named 1,246. 



ALBERT. How many of the third division live with 

 ants? 



CECIL. The books say there are 300 to 400 kinds of 

 these welcome guests. Say 1,600 as a total of all three 

 kinds. 



ALBERT. Have all the welcome guests any one thing 

 that makes ants like them? 



ANT. As a rule they all bear tufts of red or golden 

 yellow hairs. These give off a gas that ants like to smoke. 

 Some think the hairs give off a sweet substance the ants 

 like. 



CECIL. Some of the ants become so addicted to smok- 

 ing that they neglect their own babies. So their own half- 

 starved offspring become lazy outcast workers or deformed 

 queens. 



ANT. Some of the bugs have the ants completely 

 fooled, for they eat the ant-eggs and babies. Sometimes 

 the ants trade liquid food for smokes. 



CECIL. Why, the tongues of some of the beetles have 



