The Cows that Ants Milk 



1 1 



I shall have a good deal more to say presently. A 

 winged female like this may fly away to another 

 rose-bush to become the foundress of a distant 

 colony. The same illustration also shows, in a 

 greatly enlarged form, her beak or sucking appa- 

 ratus, which con- 

 sists of four sharp 

 lance - like siphons, 

 enclosed in a pro- 

 tective sheath or 

 proboscis, and ad- 

 mirably adapted 

 both for piercing 

 the rose-twig and for 

 draining the juices 

 of your choicest 

 crimson ramblers. 

 The aphis sticks in 

 the point as if it 

 were a needle, and 

 then sucks away 

 vigorously at the 

 rose-tree's life-blood. 

 Von can watch her 

 so any day with a 

 common small mag- 



nilier, and see how, like the lady at Mr. Stiggins' 

 tea meeting, she 'Swells wisibly " in the process. 

 Indeed, aphides are always beautiful objects for the 

 microscope or pocket lens, with their pale, trans- 

 parent green bodies, their bright black eyes, their 



NO. 4. -WI.N(;i;i) IKMAI.E— THE 

 FOUNDRKSS OK A COLONY. 



