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Outline and Questions on the Ant Continued 



How many kinds of individuals are to be found in each ant colony? 



Which is the longest lived? The shortest lived? 



Has an ant more or fewer eyes than a man? 



What did all ants originally eat? 



Why has their broadening taste made possible larger communities? 



Does the female ever do any work? The male? 



What are the little white burdens which the workers sometimes bring to the 

 surface of the soil? 



What function do the antennae fulfil? 



What are the three divisions of the thorax called? 



What connection have ants, according to some authorities, with the fact that 

 reptiles have scales? 



To what other insect is the ant closely related? 



What is the meaning of the name of the order to which both belong? 



Are ants widely spread over the earth or restricted to a few places? 



Give several proofs that the ants are thoroughly sanitary in their home life. 



What is the most noticeable difference between the workers and the other two 

 classes of ants? 



Why is it wise to use a red light when examining ants in a temporary nest? 



Why does the eye of an ant have more than one lens, or facet? 



What are the two parts of the antenna called? 



What three names, used in human anatomy, are applied to the three parts of the 

 leg of an ant? 



Which are an ant's most delicate sense organs? 



About how many species of ants have been described? 



Why does the female tear off her wings? 



How is the queen supplied with food after she has shut herself up in her burrow 

 to begin a new colony? 



What are the first little workers that hatch out called? 



To which class of ants does the institution of slave-holding really do harm? 



How do the ants repay the acacia tree for the board and lodging furnished them? 



Into what error have .sympathetic observers of ants frequently fallen? 



Are the young in their. various stages of development kept jumbled toother in 

 the nest? 



To what characteristic of the ant .do most literary allusions have reference? 



Is an ant's skeleton on the inside or the outside? 



What is the origin of the "gardens" which sometimes grow about ants' nests? 



Which ante are called the "Huns and Tartars of the insect world'? 



What is their method of crowing a stream? 



Do the slave-holders capture full-grown ants and Corn- them into servitude ? 



What effect docs the nest-digging have on the soil? 



Is the farmer who grows corn glad to have colonies of black ants in his fields? 



What special provision does the acacia described by Belt make for its nnt-guests? 



Why are the ants that live on fungi commonly known as parasol ants? 



What is a neuter? 



Where is the ant's sense of smell located? 



In what way can the amateur naturalist profit by the presence near his home of 

 an ant-community? 



What functions have the mandibles? 



