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This is the time of year ¥ we see the carpenter ants young with the same substance. She can live about six mionths
-- the big black ant with wings. You may see_hund- .. Without getting food from the outside world. :

’ She will now retire from activity and lay ¢ caps. for’ the rest of
reds of them flyi Ing on awarm damp afternoon; or her life. The small ants born first now take over the. duties ‘Of

if you are not so lucky, you -may see them in your finding food, feeding her, building tunnels, cleaning the eggs~{
house. They are dormant in the winter months out- and feeding the larvae, and the colony has started: For the:

side, but not quite so dormant if they have a colony _ first two years there are no queens born irito the colony.

inside your house. ; . _ Thave never seen ants attack dry wood. It must.be damp. If.

nt you have a colony « of carpenter ants in-your home, they. are
telling you there is something wrong with: ‘the house. Itis.a
sick house. Fix it or it will fall apart. we,

A little more on the: ant. Out of a colony of a few hundred,
: there are only a few that go out looking for food. If they find a
tasty morsel, they wil} take. it back and feed‘the queen and
others. If there are more goodies, they tell the others; that’s

.. why if you have pets clean up after they have eaten. ‘Ants eat -.
the same food we do and anything else that is available. (Very .
few people. have ever. seen-ant eggs. They ‘are very small. |
What most people call ant eggs (which they feed to pet turtles
“or goldfish(.are pupa, not eggs: That is-a spun cocoon -with:a
larva or ant inside, depending.on the age. When ants. are first
-born, they aré much like a baby colt,.they have enormous long
legs, very weak and.have to be groomed by the: nursery |
- workers: You can tell the young ant by his colour, not his size.

. .. In my colony, when-an ant is born the thorax, that is the *
- Carpenter ants do not cat wood. Thatis, they ¢ don’t swallow middle section, is almost yellow. As it gets older, it darkens to.”

it and digest it, but they do a. tremendous amount of.damage yp, uld- arco!
to a. piece’ of timber. You: will always: find little heaps of het t wer call” * dark maroon and eventually te. almost

sawdust where a colony is at work. = t

It all starts in the early : summer when: ‘the kings’ and queens Incidentally, if you step on one.or r kill one,’ the. others. will
that are born in the colony each’ year fly out and start their _ take him back home and bury him after they have eaten all the .

own individual colony. The carpenter. ants cannot breed until- good parts. I have a section in my colony that I cali the bone
they fly. It-is some. sort of mechanism that just doesn’t work . Y2td.-{t’s where all the skulls and legs. are thrown. (The ant

_ until the. queen flies. After they mate the king dies, poor body has a.lot of protein.-- why let it go to waste? The only.
. fellow. ~ trouble is; if you are an ant ‘you: never. ‘know- ‘what: the gay.
Now the queen finds a. place where there i is damp wood, standing next to you is thinking.) .
gets ina crack or chews her way in (but only damp wood), and __ Incidentally, carpenter: ants do bite, very hard L might: ‘Say.
- bites off her.wings. She just uses them once, maybe to fly only After they have broken the skin, they bring the abdomen: up
% few yards. .When you see them ‘fly, they look dike small. between ‘their legs and. give you a shot of-acid. Formica:acid.
tumbling pigeons, flying very erratically... - It doesn’t really-harm: yous haven’t heard of anyone: ‘being
Now that her wings.are off. slie- will stay. in: that little hole injured badly’ by it. The.Sensation is:similar to. ‘Sticking your
she has found and lays about four or six eggs. and nurses them, finger i in solvent ‘o thinners rememb ;
until. the larvae. are hatched. Then‘ she feeds‘the larvae until: .
they. go into their:cocoon; or pupa: She doesn’t seek food in all:
this time, but it digests h her Wing muscles: 2 and also. feeds’ her

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