SIR JOHN LrBHOCK ON ANTS, BEES, AND WASPS. 



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5. G 

 5.10 

 5.14 

 5.18 

 picked her up 

 6.40 

 6.50 

 6.54 

 7. 4 



; aud she returned at 



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-pots on the lavm. 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 



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 July 11 I put one of my specimens of F. nigra to some 

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



