SIE JOHN HIBBOCK ON ANTS, BKEB, AND WASPS. 



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5. 6 

 5.10 

 5.14 

 5.18 



picked Ker up ; and she returned at 



6.40 

 6.50 

 6.54 



7. 4 



5.22 

 5.26 

 5.29 

 She dropped on the floor ; I 



7. 7 with 3 friends. 

 7.11. She now fell into some 

 water. 



Experiments with Honey. 



In addition to the above experiments with larvae, I tried the 

 following with syrup. 



April 19. I put out a little syrup on eleven slips of glass, which 

 I placed on eleven inverted flower-pota on the lawn. At 8.35 a 

 F. nigra found the honey on one of the flower-pots. 

 8.50 she returned to the honey, and at 9. 5 went back to the nest. 

 9.21 ,. „ ' 9.30 



9.42 



9.50 



10.12 



10.21 



10.35 



10.46 



11. 9 



11.20 



11.45 



11.50 



11.57 



12. 2 



12-20 



12.30 



12.45 



12.53 



1. B 



1.18 



1.34 



1.43 



1.57 



2. 7 



2.28 



2.33 



2.49 



2.53 



2.59 



3- 2 



3. 9 



3.11 



3.29 



3.30 



3.59 



4. 8 



After which we watched till 6 p.m. : but she did not return again 

 to the honey. During the above time 8 ants came to the same 

 honey, and 21 to the other ten deposits. 



On Julv 11 T put one of my specimens of jP. nigra to some 

 honey at 7.10. She fed till 7.25. when she returned to the nest 



