 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...perfect insects, which are male and female, and capable of propagating. The nests of the termes bHlicosus are so numerous all over the island of Bananas, and...scarcely possible to stand upon any open place, such as a rice, plantation, or other clear spot, where one of these buildings is not to be seen within fifty... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - Natural history - 1818 - 894 pages
...insects, which are male and female, and capable of propagating. The nests of the termes brllicosus are so numerous all over the island of Bananas, and...continent of Africa, that it is scarcely possible to stand npon any open place, such as a rice, plantation, or other clear spot, where one of these buildings... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1820 - 422 pages
...form may sometimes be mistaken at a distance for the huts of the natives.. These nests are so common all over the island of Bananas, and the adjacent continent of Africa, that it is scarcely possible to stand on an open place where one trf these buildings is not to be seen. The domes are so strong that they... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 526 pages
...been of a species which, from its hardness, is called iron wood. " The nests of the Termites Bellicosi are so numerous all over the island of Bananas, and the adjacent continent of Africa, that it is scarce possible to stand upon any open place, where one of these buildings is not to be seen within... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Fishes - 1845 - 612 pages
...and perform every kind of labour requisite for the good of the community, The nests of the Termites are so numerous all over the island of Bananas and...adjacent Continent of Africa, that it is scarcely 568 INSTINCfS OF TERMITES, OR WHITE ANTS. possible to stand upon any open place, such as a rice-plantation... | |
 | C. T - 1847 - 316 pages
...Society of London." OCEEH TERMES. (Removed from her cell.) The nests of the white ant are so numerous in the island of Bananas, and the adjacent continent of Africa, that it is scarcely possible to stand in any open place, such as a rice plantation, without seeing one or more of them within fifty paces.... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Zoology - 1848 - 656 pages
...and perform every kind of labour requisite for the good of the community, The nests of the Termites are so numerous all over the island of Bananas and...scarcely possible to stand upon any open place, such as a rice- plantation or other clear spot, where one or more of these buildings is not to be seen within... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Zoology - 1848 - 606 pages
...and perform every kind of labour requisite for the good of the community, The nests of the Termites are so numerous all over the island of Bananas and...adjacent Continent of Africa, that it is scarcely INSTINCTS OP TERMITES, OR WHITE ANTS. possible to stand upon any open place, such as a rice-plantation... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Zoology - 1858 - 644 pages
...and perform every kind of labour requisite for the good of the community. The nests of the Termites are so numerous all over the island of Bananas and...adjacent Continent of Africa, that it is scarcely INSTINCTS OF TERMITES, OR WHITE ANTS. possible to stand upon any open place, such as a rice-plantation... | |
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Africa, that it is scarcely possible to stand upon any open place, such as a rice- plantation or other clear spot, where one or more of these buildings is not to be seen within fifty paces. In some parts near Senegal, as mentioned by Adanson, their number,... 