Replete Ants

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“The ‘replete’ workers, with their social stomachs distended with the sweet exudations of oak galls, hang from the vaulted roof of the chamber in a cluster and function as so many food reservoirs.” -National Geographic, 1912

Keywords

kants, ant nest, formicary, replete ants, ant social stomach, ants hanging

Galleries

Hymenoptera: Ants Bees and Wasps

Source

The National Geographic Magazine; V. 23, August - December, 1912 (Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1912)

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