SLAVE-MAKING ANTS. 21 



but simply try to make their escape. I take 

 larvae and lay them on a leaf, and put them 

 under the glass also, and place moistened 

 sugar in their reach. Very soon the blacks 

 are feeding the helpless larvae. I remove 

 the glass cover; the reds immediately run 

 away, but the blacks stay, and continue to 

 sip the moistened sugar and feed the young. 

 I hold a magnifying -glass over them, and 

 find the little larvae raise up their heads and 

 open their mouths to be fed, very much like 

 young birds. I now take the larvae, togeth- 

 er with the nurses, and place them near the 

 nest of red ants. I soon lose sight of the 

 nurses, but the larvae are quickly taken into 

 the nest by the red soldiers. 



By this time I have become so much in- 

 terested in the red warriors, which I had 

 heretofore rather avoided, that I resolved to 

 devote my time to them, so I keep a daily 

 record of their behavior. This record would 

 be much too long for a magazine article, so 

 I will make extracts from it. 



On the 3d and 4th of July the soldiers 

 were very quiet, scarcely one to be seen, as 

 if they were resting after their great raid 

 of the 1st and 2d. 



On the evening of the 4th the blacks 

 close the large main entrance through 



