Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1915 — NEW DISCOVERY ABOUT ANTS [ARTICLE]

NEW DISCOVERY ABOUT ANTS

Scientist Asserts That the Insects Have a Regular Form of Salutation Among Themselvoa. Ants have long been known for their excessive industry, but from a curious communication which has just ap peered they seem to have surpassed all other insects by organizing an elaborate system of signaling. Professor Bugnlon, who has recently investigated the habits of the white ant. reports that the "soldiers” of that species give warnings or encouraging signals by knocking with their jaws upon dry leaves, thereby emitting a crackling sound. Placing some of these ants on a big plate and covering it with paper, be found that the “soldiers” among the anU responded to his taps with a rustling, crackling sound. Moreover, apart from this audible signaling, there appears to be some inaudible form of signal, for the prolessor asserts that the “soldier” ants salute the worker ants. To do this, ‘the tpsect stands firmly on Jts tegs with the head raised and the body slightly oblique, and shakes Itself for an instant with a convulsive shudder. r This seems t» mean some thing." . K t t; - • , If you want It to be a sunny work stop wearing a tdoud on your brow.-’ I ,**** Times-Union.