Of ANT S . 
3 * 
CHAP. IV. 
Of the Queens laying their Eggs . tfime 
and Manner of it. A Defcription of 
the Eggs , their different Sorts and Pro - 
; portions . 
T H E preceeding Qbfervations inform us that 
the Queen, or large Female Ant, fupplie s 
the whole Colony with Eggs ; that likewife the 
common Ants have no Diftin£fion of Sex, and 
undertake the Charge of feeding and educating 
the Young delivered to their care by the Queen* 
To be fatisfied of this we need only refer ourfelves 
to fome of the following Experiments. 
If you difiefl a Queen in the Spring or Sum* 
mer Months, you will often find in her Alvus or 
Body a Quantity of Eggs. You may fometimop 
expedt the fame at the latter End of* November* 
* If the Autumn Months are very ferene, the Female 
Eggs are moftly depofued by the latter End of 
November. 
If 
