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may start a gallery or chamber in a new direction, 
and others soon joining her will add fresh nurseries 
and homes to the nest according to their own ideas. 
Yet there is order in. this vast multitude. Some 
invisible bond makes each and all labour for the 
good of the whole, and this is the more curious as 
Fig. 91. 
Spur ; 
male 
F, Formica rufa. Hill Ant. Worker. s 9 
f, female ; g 9 grub ; r, cocoon ; p, naked pupa. 
M, Myrmica molesta. The little reddish-yellow Ant, infesting our 
houses, having two knobs and a sting. 
The true size of these Ants is indicated by the lines. 
there is no special leader or governor among them. 
In all complicated work which has to be done — the 
feeding of the queen-mother, the nursing, carrying, 
