 The leaf-cutting ants attacked the young plants, and defoliated them, but I have never seen any of the trees out on the savannahs that are guarded by the Pseudomyrma touched by them, and have no doubt the acacia is protected from them by its little warriors....  Ants: Their Structure, Development and Behavior - Page 312by William Morton Wheeler - 1910 - 663 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Belt - Natural history - 1874 - 442 pages
...Pseudomyrma touched by them, and have no doubt the acacia is protected from them by its little warriors. The thorns, when they are first developed, are soft,...the thorn. Strange to say, this treatment seems to favour the development of the thorn, as it increases in size, bulging out towards the base ; whilst... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1915 - 618 pages
...Pseudomyrma touched by them 1), and have no doubt, the acacia is protected from them by its little warriors. The thorns, when they are first developed, are soft...substance ; so that the ant, when it makes an entrance to them 2), finds its new house full of food. It hollows this out, leaving only the hardened shell... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - Children's literature - 1922 - 526 pages
...guarded touched by them, and have no doubt the acacia is protected from them by its little warriors. The thorns, when they are first developed, are soft,...favor the development of the thorn, as it increases in size, bulging out toward the base; whilst in my plants that were not touched by the ants, the thorns... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1922 - 794 pages
...Pseudomyrma touched by them, and have no doubt the acacia Is protected from them by its little warriors. The thorns, when they are first developed, are soft,...sweetish, pulpy substance; so that the ant, when it makes au entrance into them, finds its new house full of food. It hollows this out, leaving only the hardened... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1922 - 788 pages
...Pseudomyrma touched by them, and have no doubt the acacia is protected from them by its little warriors. The thorns, when they are first developed, are soft,...hollows this out, leaving only the hardened shell of the tl>orn. Strange to say, this treatment seems to favor the development of the thorn, as it increases... | |
 | Thomas Belt - 2002 - 348 pages
...Pseudomyrma touched by them, and have no doubt the acacia is protected from them by its little warriors. The thorns, when they are first developed, are soft, and filled with asweetish, pulpy substance ; so that the ant. when it makes an entrance into them, finds 172 The Naturalist... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1922 - 786 pages
...protected from them by its little warriors. The thorns, when they are first developed, are soft, and flllod with a sweetish, pulpy substance; so that the ant,...favor the development of the thorn, as it increases in size, buiging out towards the base; whilst in my plants that were not touched by the ants, the thorns... | |
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