| → of F. sanguinea from 1860 1861 1866 1869 1872 |
| from 1859 |
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| → OMIT 1861 1866 1869 1872 |
| as Huber has described, 1859 |
| (instead of being carried by, as in the case of F. rufescens) 1860 |
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| → jaws instead of being carried by them, as in the case of F. rufescens. 1861 1866 1869 1872 |
| jaws. 1859 1860 |
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slaves being captured in greater numbers in Switzerland than in England. |
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| One day I fortunately
a migration
→of F. sanguinea from
one nest to another, and it was a most interesting spectacle to behold the masters carefully
→OMIT
their slaves in their
→jaws instead of being carried by them, as in the case of F. rufescens. Another day my attention was struck by about a score of the
haunting the same spot, and evidently not in search of food; they approached and were vigorously repulsed by an independent community of the
(F. fusca); sometimes as many as three of these ants clinging to the legs of the slave-making F. sanguinea. The latter ruthlessly killed their small opponents, and carried their dead bodies as food to their nest, twenty-nine yards distant; but they were prevented from getting any pupæ to rear as slaves. I then dug up a small parcel of the pupæ of F. fusca from another nest, and put them down on a bare spot near the place of combat; they were eagerly
and carried off by the tyrants, who perhaps fancied that, after all, they had been victorious in their late combat. |
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| At the same time I laid on the same place a small parcel of the pupæ of another species, F. flava,
a few of these little yellow ants still clinging to the fragments of
This species is sometimes, though rarely, made into slaves, as has been described by Mr. Smith. Although so small a species, it is very courageous, and I have seen it ferociously attack other ants. In one instance I found to my surprise an independent community of F. flava under a stone beneath a nest of the slave-making F. sanguinea; and when I had accidentally disturbed both nests, the little ants attacked their big neighbours with surprising courage. Now I was curious to ascertain whether F. sanguinea
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