LIFE HISTORY OF THE ANT 53 
the white objects which are commonly called “ ant-eggs.” 
The adults guard these cocoons which contain the pupae, 
carrying them away to places of safety when the colony is 
disturbed. Sometimes the 
adult workers remove them 
to warmer quarters. 
The males and females 
have wings while the 
workers are wingless. 
34. Behavior. — Many 
interesting facts about the 
honey-bees are well known 
while less attention has 
been paid to the ants al¬ 
though these seem to be 
even more wonderful in¬ 
sects. Some of the inter¬ 
esting facts about ants 
follow: 
1. They build beaten 
roads with tunnels under 
brush piles. 
2. They keep plant lice 
for the sweet fluid they 
exude which suggests the keeping of cattle by man. 
3. They carry these plant lice into their tunnels and 
care for them over the winter season. In the spring they 
carry them out and place them on food plants. 
4. If a nest is attacked by enemies, the soldiers rush 
around and stroke the workers with their antennae. This 
seems to inform them of the attack and they hurry to the 
rescue. 
5. They wrestle and play and sometimes carry one another 
around. It looks like a football game. 
6. They have battles with other colonies. Before a 
Figure 44. — Tremex. 
Just after laying eggs in a tree. The 
larvae of this insect do much damage 
to trees. 
