, 1875-08-08

their enthusiasm II yon carry AWAY with an.
rubbish portion OF their city, you see then
instantly set to work at the breach to build u
arch winch may protect the venerated head q
the mother, to reconstruct her royal cell, uhicl
! viii become 1T there are sufficient materials
the centre. the baee, OF the restored city"
colony OF termites ia founded By sngl
male aud female, that have been named b,
narurallssa the KING aud the queen. The roys
pau are installed III cell or chamber built il
the interior OF the nest exclusively for their 90
cupatlon- The walls Of this apartment are per
totated With holes Of sufficient size to admit thu
| workers, but not large enough 10 allow OF tn,
Passage OF tbs queen. Hence she never leave
tue cell IN which she ia iuclosed while she lives
let no precautlon would seem necessary to dc
tam the queen in captivity, as her enor.
nous bulk renders locomotion impossible tt
mountain Of mummy" are not larger than
those Of soldier but the abdomen becomes &C
distended that it weighs 900 times as much 81
the rest Of the body, and cannot be moved Of
dragged by the feeble strength OF its owner.
The fecundlty Of the queen il quite as oxtraor.
dinary AZ her elze. From the hour she is estab.
llshed IN the heart OF her domin1ous, ahe begins
deposatlng eggs at the rate OF about sixty min.
ute, OF upwards Of 10000 every twenty-foul
hours, and OF 81. .000, 900 year. In single day
| she produces more offspring than does the fer
| ule queeu-bee in the course OF an entire year.
Thousands Of busy workers attend upon the
queen. feeding her aud removing the eggs as
last they are laid to other cells in the nest pre-
pared for their reception, where they are Matched
| aud the youug arc nurtured and guarded until
t they have reached maturity The greater por-
| ton OF these uutshDgs are destined to become
] the workers OF future colony; others are de-
veloped INTO soldiers to serve with the workers !;
and still others IN due time pasa into the perfect
| winged state. At the opeaing Of the rait,y sca-
sou. which generally commences in the latter part
of May. the winged termtes, consisting OF males
and females, in about equal proportions, reauy
to swarm from The parent nest.
After the first heavy rain or two they pour out
from the hive in vast clouds and mount on their
wings for the first and only time in their lives.
In the vicinity OF large nast8 OF termitaries tho
alt Will be thick with them Us with binding,
elloy tho novelty Of flight. aud then drop to the
ground and with d sudden forward jerk Of the
HluEs snap OF these low useless appeudaSes
and voluntarily condemn themselves to be mere
crawlers Oh the ground While the termltes
are swar1nnc i'll the air and on the earth. their
enemies Of every kind are actively waging against
then war Of exterminatlop. Their slrange
exodus from the homo OF their birth takes place
in the evening, but numerous foes are
ever ready TO procptate 10 attack, upon
w1agcd things consume them while lowering in
the air, and, they fall to the ground. aut-eat-
era, loads, spiders, other species OF ants, and
rayeners too numerous to nentlon spring upon
lib]e yo,i, of destruction. 1t ia supposed that
not one in OCO survives to found 4 new col
opy. It loois like IN imbeclIe proceeding on
tbe part OF nature TO set Ill motion q tr.:c of
circumstances That will lead to such excessive
waste. but in exu1 1nation it Ii SAID by Soma nat
uraIlsta that these hosts of winged term,tes are
sent forth in order that they may have chance
to ENCOUNTER the ren b1oods from other col
opies, and thus avoid The lit effects Of mating
among themselves and breeding in-and-in.
When the tiyipg tertnitss have desceaded to
the .ronnd and sht,rn themselves OF their wings.
tbs indefatieab,o workers vii. be found on the
snot, rnshing about ia search of n pair whom
thcy may convey t. . place Of security aud adopt
n. t,,,ir king and ,1ileeu fe y couples onlv
si|j ha p:ckcd I'D bv fhe workers.. thu remainder
OF the great host OF wanderers sadly perishiug
iu one way or another.
All tho tern,;te. era miners. and ths rreatar
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