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Identifier: americanhomesgar41907newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ed-leaf material,and furnishes the foundation for a new fungus-garden. Inthe first days the fungus ball is picked to pieces; the indi-vidual parts grow, and in from eight to ten days they forma disk half an inch in diameter. After twenty days morethe fungus-garden measures nearly an inch, and alreadyshows at the edge clusters of globules. The queen ant plants the fourteen-day-old garden with about a hundredeggs. The question now arises, Where, then, does thefungus get the nourishment for growth? At first scarce afiftieth of an inch big, it soon measures an inch. The mother-ant is all alone, never leaves the cave; so neither does therecome in the pieces of leaves, which normally, chopped, soakedand kneaded, serve the fungus as fostering soil. Withwhat, then, is the little fungus-garden manured? Huberobserved that the mother-ant tears out flocks of funguswith her mandibles, and, sitting on her hind pair of legs,presses against her turned-in hinder body, from which a W^m sfi.kJm :^^^S^SM
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Red weaver-ants repairing a rent in their nestSagittal section of the head of a little Atta femaleThe mother-ant manuring the fungus-garden (instantaneous views)So-called cluster of globules Scenes from the Life of an Ant Breeding-cave Feeding larvae,showing dif-ferent stagesof assimilat-ing an egg Fourteen-day manured fungus-garden with about one hun-dred eggs Breeding-cave. Vertical section of a cave of Atta sexdi(excavated in the open air) Sagittal section of head, with changed position of fungus-ball Female working red weaver-ant 360 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS September, 1907 brownish-yellow drop is secreted—a drop of manure. Theflock of fungus, pressed into the garden again with the feet,absorbs the appended drop. With her own excretions, then,the ant manures the young culture. At the same time, how-ever, this mother-ant lays daily about fifty eggs. How canshe, without taking nourishment, thus constantly producemanure-drops and eggs? How is the conservation of sub-stance and of

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