Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1904 — How an Ant Goes to Bed. [ARTICLE]

How an Ant Goes to Bed.

An ant-hill is made of tiny pebbles, which are piled about an entrance hole. At niglit the ants take these pebbles in their mouths, and, carrying them to the hole, pile them one upon the other, as men build a wall. After the hole Is filled up, except one tiny place at the top, the last ant crawls in and with her head pushes sand up against the hole from the inside, thus stopping it up entirely. Then all night not an ant will be seen, but about eight o’clock the next morning, if one looks very closely, one may see a pair of tiny feelers thrust out through the clinks between the stones. Then an ant pushes its way out and begins to carry the pebbles away. Just behind the first comes another nnd another, until the whole family comes journeying out