In my artificial formicary they did not mount the stems, even when the heads were not more than three or four inches from the ground, but seeds that I scattered in the jar were always taken below.
But there are other animals in the teeming formicary which seem to subserve no useful purpose other than that of ministering to the ants' love of pets or playmates.
On one occasion, I took ten Lasius niger and confined them in a specially constructed formicary so that they could not possibly leave the nest.
I am convinced that the reason for this onslaught was the desire to be rid of the obnoxious shade, and open the formicary to the full light of the sun.
That very afternoon I found in a formicary which I then opened several large colonies, or parts of one colony of termites, nested within the limits of the disk and quite at home.
MacCook also gives an account of habits of play as indulged in among ants of the other Hemisphere:-- At one formicary half a dozen or more young queens were out at the same time.
The formicary was taken from the study, where the air had become chilled, and placed in an adjoining chamber upon the hearth, before an open-grate fire.
The shadow thrown upon the pavement was very slight; nevertheless, fifteen feet distant a new formicary was being established.
An opening had been made in the ground, and the beginnings of a new formicary were quite apparent.
Ants may be readily kept in the schoolroom in an artificial nest or formicary and their life-history and habits closely watched.
For full directions for making and keeping a simple and inexpensive formicary see Comstock's "Insect Life," pp.
The whole life of theformicary centers upon the young, which proves they have reached a degree of civilization unknown even in some forms of higher life.
She is fed and cared for by the workers, and she in turn assists them in the rearing of the young, and has even been known to give her strength for the extension of the formicary grounds.
Several queens often exist in one nest, and I have seen workers drag newly fertilized queens into a formicary to enlarge their resources.
Around the formicary itself the workers were grouped en masse, endeavoring either to restrain the new brood of queens in the old colony or to coerce them into leaving.
Another feature evident in disturbing a formicary is the general harmony in which the individuals of any one colony work together.
Swarming on the extremity of the branches among which the formicaryis constructed, the defenders, projecting their terminal segments as far into space as possible, eject formic acid in the direction of the enemy.
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