Of ANT S. 37 
true Clutters of Eggs from any Contrivance to 
delude them. If you Place feveral little Parcels of 
Eggs, as alfo of Sugar, Salt, or any other Refem- 
blances under a Glafs with a Quantity of Ants^ 
they will, at oneView, perceive the Cheat, and re¬ 
move nothing but the Eggs. If you mix the In¬ 
gredients they will as eafily make a due Separation,, 
If you put Clutters from Colonies of different 
Ants under the fame Glafs, they will often touch 
only their own. But I have fometimes known the 
contrary ; and if the Eggs be of the fame Species 
they feldom make any Diftindiion. 
There does* not feem to be any confiderable 
Variation in regard of the Eggs, ^Time or Man¬ 
ner of the Queen’s laying, amongft the feveral 
Ants, The Eggs of the hill Colonies are a little 
larger and earlier. And indeed many Queens de ra 
pofit their Eggs fooner than others of the like 
Species. 
* The Inconflancy of our Climate, oc.cafions a Va¬ 
riation in the Time of laying. If the Autumn be fine, 
a Queen Ant depofits the Female Eggs in November* 
the Male in February , but ufually in March: 
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