In the humble-bees (Bombus), the mandibles of the male are bearded with curled hairs, while those of the females and neuters are without them.
The tongue (lingua or ligula) of the sexes is usually the same; except in the hive-bee, in which that of the neuters is longer than that of the male and female.
Some of the neuters have their jaws, or mandibles, made much larger than the rest.
They are always waited upon very carefully by the neuters who have no wings, but are noted for their industry, skill, and strength.
Perhaps we should say if she can get it done for her, because these neuters are rather more like females than like male ants.
I allude to the neuters or sterile females in insect-communities: for these neuters often differ widely in instinct and in structure from both the males and fertile females, and yet, from being sterile, they cannot propagate their kind.
I may give one other case: so confidently did I expect to find gradations in important points of structure between the different castes of neuters in the same species, that I gladly availed myself of Mr. F.
These latter, by which alone the variety can be propagated, may be compared with the fertile male and female ants, and the double sterile plants with the neuters of the same community.
I may give one other case: so confidently did I expect occasionally to find gradations of important structures between the different castes of neuters in the same species, that I gladly availed myself of Mr. F.
I allude to the neuters or sterile females in insect communities: for these neuters often differ widely in instinct and in structure from both the males and fertile females, and yet, from being sterile, they cannot propagate their kind.
The neuters pass the winter in a state of torpor, and of course require no food.
The neuters perform all the labours of the ant-hill or abode of the community; they excavate the galleries, procure food, and feed the larvae or young ants, which have not got organs of motion.
Neuters which long preserved their gender often have no -s in the nom.
The neuters are much less numerous than the workers, bearing the proportion of one to one hundred, and exceeding them greatly in bulk.
Their society consists of five different descriptions of individuals: workers or larvae, nymphs or pupae, neuters or soldiers, males, and females.
These neuters seem to be a kind of abortive females, and there is nothing analogous to them in any other department of entomology.
Thus it appears necessary to suppose that the instincts of all the different castes of neuters are latent in the queen and drones, together with the other instincts which are patent in both.
Observe that the masculines and the neuters have the same terminations excepting in the nominative singular and the nominative and accusative plural.
Through the early summer only neuters are produced, but when fall approaches the future generation is provided for by the development of males and females.
The curious fact has been established that when food is very plentiful the workers begin to lay male eggs, thus taking from the queen a part of her burden and leaving her free to produce neuters and females.
In these two genera, the females and the neuters have a sting, and the larvae do not spin a cocoon in which to change into pupa.
Latin neuters are generally masculine in Old French, and inflected according to their analogy, as ciels (caelus for caelum nom.
Mr. Knight made the same observation in 1806, and supposes the scarcity of neuters arose from the want of males to impregnate the females.
In certain Mexican and Australian ants some of the neuters have huge spherical abdomens, which serve as living reservoirs of honey for the use of the community.
In many species of ants there are two, and in the leaf-cutting ants of Brazil there are three, kinds of neuters which differ from each other and from their male and female ancestors "to an almost incredible degree.
There are three casts of ants, or four if one count, the division of neuters into workers and fighters, as among termites.
The workers or neuters are generally smaller, as noticeably in the great red wood-ants, who dig their shelters in stumps.
Specialization is the only superiority of the neuters who for the rest seem inferior to the females and to the males in size, muscling and visual organs.
Here, as with bees, the neuters are the base of the republic, the males die after mating, the females after laying.
The masculines end in -a, the feminines and neuters in -e.
A decade or so after the retreat of the missionaries came that fierce Indian strife which annihilated the Neuters and gave Niagara's banks into the keeping of the fiercer but somewhat nobler Iroquois.
The Hurons, he says, having discovered that he talked of leading the Neuters to trade, at once spread false and evil reports of him.
They said he was a great magician; that he was a poisoner, that he tainted the air of the country where he tarried, and that if the Neuters did not kill him, he would burn their villages and kill their children.
The Neuters accepted the priest's offers, and the first recorded trade in the Niagara region was made when he presented them "little knives and other trifles.
In two or three days the eggs are hatched, when the Neuters nurse the young grubs, whom they feed most tenderly with bee-bread and honey.
The females and neuters are furnished with stings for their defence; the males are wholly destitute of them.
The males and females are in proper season furnished with wings, but the neuters have none, and they are doomed always to labour and drudgery on the hill.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neuters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
