ANTS, THEIR GUESTS AND THEIR 

 LODGERS 



THE number of insects of different kinds which 

 live in ants' nests, either as scavengers, stray 

 visitors who have found a lodging for the moment, 

 as guests carefully taken care of and appreciated 

 by the ants, or as lodgers, either tolerated or 

 hostile to their hosts and persecuted, and para- 

 sites, is very great. The most interesting of these 

 from the ordinary observer's point of view are 

 the true guests and the lodgers. The true 

 guests are carefully attended to by the ants ; they 

 include such insects as the Aphides or plant lice, 

 and others which the ants use as " cows " to 

 secure the saccharine juices which they can 

 obtain from them, and also certain strange 

 beetles which have tufts of golden hairs on 

 their body, which the ants lick on account of 

 what E. Wasmann 1 calls the etherealized oil 



1 The Guests of Ants and Termites, by E. Wasmann, S. J., 

 translated by H. Donisthorpe, F.Z.S. (Ent. Record, Vol. 

 xii., 1900.) 



