As soon as an Eciton is deprived of its two antennæ it is utterly lost, like any other ant under the same circumstances.
In one such case in an artificial nest of a small species of Leptothorax, the persecuting ant succeeded in dragging her victim to the edge of my table.
Their ability to follow one another and to find their way about rapidly and unanimously in new territory without a single ant going astray, is incredible.
Thus it is possible to teach a dog to react in a particular manner to certain sounds or signs, but it is impossible to teach a fish or an ant these things.
The memory of the suitable nature of the locality for establishing a new nest must exist in the brain of the first ant or she would not return, laden with a companion, to this very spot.
Among the different individuals of the previously hostile, but now pacified opposition, she had concentrated her antipathy on this particular ant and had tried to make her return to the nest impossible.
As soon as anant perceives that she is not being followed, she turns back and follows the others.
The ant ran this way and that way, but he could not get down.
Do you think that the greedy ant told the other ants about the jar?
One little ant liked sweet things so well that he staid in the jar, and kept on eating like a greedy boy.
Illustration: Ants talking (magnified)] At last when this greedy ant had eaten all that he could, he started to go home.
When an ant has found a dead fly too big for him to drag away, he will run off and get some other ant to help him.
Illustration: An Ants Feeler (magnified)] At last the greedy ant thought he would see if he could go up.
Each grown ant knows its own business and can, when necessary, fight its own battles, and yet there is always a community; they have all things in common and work for the general good.
Having to stay there for hours, at the end of his resources, ready to give way to despair, his attention was attracted by an ant which was carrying something larger than itself up a high wall.
An ant slid part way down its funnel and tried to climb out again, and the ant lion down below is flinging sand at it.
It is easy to find these pit-falls of the ant lion in sand banks in the summer-time.
It is like the larvæ of the dobson, the aphis lion, and the ant lion in that respect.
Yes, the little silken room they weave we call a cocoon, but the ant lions make theirs of silk and sand.
The anthas been dragged down out of sight through a hole in the bottom of the funnel.
THE ANT LION John has found something he wants us all to see.
At last they found an oldant who was set to watch the plant-lice from which the ants get honeydew.
In this way almost all the ants at the present time have become Peaceful Ants, and the fragments of the first Peaceful Ant are carefully and reverently preserved.
They call themselves Peaceful Ants, but in fact they are Fighting Ants by nature--but we have the True Head, and the Peaceful Ant had but one head.
The Red Ant is a clerk and the Black Ant is his uncle and an undertaker.
So the Black Antnext said-- "It makes no difference to me either.
The Red Ant and the Black Ant had come in company.
Black Ant of course was too busy burying him to attend to such frivolous matters.
It makes very little difference with us," said the Red Ant whose turn it now was; "every thing is arranged in the Hill so perfectly that nothing can put us out.
Presently the ant dropped the caterpillar, and ran on a few steps—I mean inches—to meet another ant who was coming towards him.
In a second more I saw an ant seize hold of him and begin to drag him off.
The ant was running round and round the caterpillar.
My Ant picked it up with her wonderful horns and whisked it into her mouth as quickly as you would a sugarplum.
My Antsaid nothing, but went ahead, snapping her horns furiously.
MY ANT’S COW My Ant lives in the country and keeps a cow.
When the Black Ant came, he shook himself, and behold, he had a twisted leg, and a hump back, and was as black as the ant.
It is the Black Ant who will come and creep from your feet up to your head.
Then she picked up Kabo, and put him in the shed, and told him what to do when the Black Ant came, and what to do when the Red Ant came.
Pivi lay still under his coverings, then a tiny noise was heard, and the Black Ant began to march over Pivi, who lay quite still.
THE ANT Ants were once men and made their living by tilling the soil.
The boys stood for some time looking at the busy heap, until from looking at the whole together they came to selecting particular ants and speculating on their destination, for every ant had a purpose in going and coming.
The ant drinks, and the Acvinau, whilst it drinks, come to its help, for no doubt the ant when drinking is in danger of being drowned.
I also find the wedding between ant and grasshopper in a very popular, but as yet unpublished Tuscan song.
Here we evidently return to the Vedic subject of the ant Indras, who tempts the serpent to come out in order to give it to the ants.
The Hindoo names of the ant are vamras and vamri (besides pipilakas).
The ant answers the fly by referring to the certain approach of winter, during which the ant, who had worked hard, has abundant provisions, and lives, whilst the fly dies of cold and starvation.
We have seen in the chapter on the Ant how the ants make serpents come out of their holes; in Bavaria, according to Baron Reinsberg von Dueringsfeld, the work quoted before, p.
The ant throws or lifts up little hillocks of earth by biting the ground.
The ant asks the grasshopper whether he desires her for his wife, and recommends him, if he does not, to look after his own affairs, that is, to leave her alone.
The ant dies when its wings grow; the ants and the treasure.
The ant is strong, but we saw another strong thing, where we had not suspected the presence of much muscular power before.
Those particular ants may be all that the naturalist paints them, but I am persuaded that the average ant is a sham.
They make up and go to work again in the same old insane way, but the crippled ant is at a disadvantage; tug as he may, the other one drags off the booty and him at the end of it.
It is strange, beyond comprehension, that so manifest a humbug as the ant has been able to fool so many nations and keep it up so many ages without being found out.
During many summers, now, I have watched him, when I ought to have been in better business, and I have not yet come across a livingant that seemed to have any more sense than a dead one.
There in the Black Forest, on the mountainside, I saw an ant go through with such a performance as this with a dead spider of fully ten times his own weight.
Now and then, while we rested, we watched the laborious ant at his work.
When she saw him the ant began to weep, and all her friends; and the ant remained a widow, because he who is a mouse must be a glutton.
He arrived at a forest, and there saw a lion, an eagle, and an ant which had found a dead ass that they wanted to divide among themselves, but could not agree and so were quarrelling.
Equally unimaginable, of course, a romantic ant, an ideological ant, a poetical ant, or an antinclined to metaphysical speculations.
Indeed, Professor Sharp somewhat needlessly qualifies his praise of the ant with this cautious observation:-- "The competence of the ant is not like that of man.
What I want to talk about is the awful propriety, the terrible morality, of the ant [1].
Watch this ant travelling patiently onward, and mark the distance traversed by the milestone of a tall bennet.
THE colour of the Ant is in general a dark red or brown, with a fine gloss on the abdomen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: insect; soldier; worker
