Invertebrates The Lubbock Ant Nest 
After the nest is made, and the ants are well- 
established, we must be very careful to provide them 
with fresh food every day. The following things 
may be given: Bits of hard-boiled yolk of egg, 
any dead insects or spiders that can be found, bits 
of meat, raw or cooked, and bread, seeds of both 
plants and grasses, berries and fruits of all kinds that 
have been broken or injured. 
WHAT MAY. BE SEEN WITHIN THE ANT NEST 
After the ants’ nest has been made and a colony of 
ants established within it, we may give closer atten- 
tion to these little citizens, since now they are 
dependent on our care. The ant is an especially good 
runner. I once timed an ant that was going at a 
moderate rate of speed, and yet she was making six- 
teen yards per second, if calculated on a human basis, 
comparing the size of the ant with the size of a man. 
The ants’ eyes are rather dull, but she has a good 
brain behind them; in fact, she does not need to see 
very much, since so much of her life is passed in 
darkness. But we must study her jaws with especial 
interest because they are her chief utensils and weap- 
ons. With them she carries home her heavy burden 
of food; with them she gently lifts the youngsters in 
her charge; with them she crushes and breaks up 
food, and also carries out soil from her tunnel; and 
they are also her weapons in battle. Of equal im- 
portance with the jaws are the antenne, which are 
always moving to receive new sensations. They are 
far more delicate than the fingers of the blind when 
used as organs of touch, and they are also possessed 
of other sense organs, which may be compared with 
our organs of smell. It is quite natural that the ant, 
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