IN CAMP. 



mouth and exuding it or passing it out 

 at the other end of the body. They 

 spend their lives doing this and are little 

 more than animated siphons. 



Now ants, as we all know, are extremely 

 fond of sugar, and those members of the 

 community who are not addicted to occu- 

 pying with us our homes and helping 

 themselves from our sugar basins or 

 dessert dishes, but live out in the jungles 

 as all decent insects should have perforce 

 to search for this commodity elsewhere. 

 And the blights provide it in abundance 

 not only in the manner above described 

 by exuding sugary excretions on to stem 

 and leaf of the plant they are infesting, 

 but also in another way. 



If you examine the blight here depicted 

 enlarged you will see that it has two little 

 processes sticking up out of its back. 

 These are two little tubes connected with 

 the interior of the body, and if the latter is 

 pressed from outside a little sugary liquid 

 exudes from these tubes. The ant walks 

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