INSECT INTRUDERS. 



long before some wandering member of 

 an out-post picket of this small species 

 will have discovered it. And the article 

 need not contain sugar either. Any and 

 every scrap appears to be worthy of 

 attention from this omnivorous insect. 

 If he can lift or move the prize, off it 

 slowly goes. Whilst engaged in his often 

 Herculean task he may be joined by a 

 friend or two. If the article proves above 

 * their capabilities, they will depart. W r ait 



91 v . and watch a little and you will see them 

 ,** return reinforced, running eagerly to left 

 i* and right, but keeping a more or less 



generally correct direction till they arrive 

 at the prize they had left. 



The one instinct which then seems to 

 animate them all is to fix their jaws on to 

 the prize and pull. They do not appear 

 to know how to shove ; they can carry 

 *g an article in the required direction but 



3 not shove it. Consequently the sight is 



fiT-irifc^ witnessed of a general tug-of-war in which 

 the majority win and make a gradual 



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