THE HARVESTING-ANTS OF FLORIDA. 89 



from one to the other. Immediately below 

 there were five chambers well filled with 

 ants, and below these other chambers were 

 scattered irregularly throughout, with only 

 thin partitions between. 



At various times I had given the ants 

 moistened sugar on the thick curved leaves 

 of the live-oak, and several of these had been 

 covered while the ants were making their 

 excavations. Two of the leaves were three 

 inches below the surface, and the ants had 

 utilized them by making the inner curved 

 surface answer for the floor and sides of fine 

 chambers ; and here a large number of ants, 

 both soldiers and workers, were crowded 

 together. In other chambers I found the 

 larva?, which were greatly increased in size 

 since I had placed them in the jar; and the 

 larvae of the carpenter-ant were being reared, 

 as I found some smaller than any I had in- 

 troduced belonging to the harvester. 



Very soon a great crowd of excited ants 

 canie from the hill near which I had broken 

 the jar, and began to transport the larva?, 

 and also the mature ants, to their own do- 

 minions. There was no fighting: the ants 

 from the jar submitted to being carried, not 

 offering the least resistance. A small work- 

 er would often take hold of a large soldier, 



