dark-reddish

Updated: May 26, 2025

It is probable that these hours of relaxation and cleaning may be indispensable to the effective performance of their harder labours, but while looking at them, the conclusion that the ants were engaged merely in play was irresistible. Eciton praedator. This is a small dark-reddish species, very similar to the common red stinging-ant of England.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons

The cat's name was Darco. Jonas took a pair of heavy iron tongs, which stood by the side of the fire, and pulled forward the log. He found that it had burned through, and by three or four strokes with the tongs, he broke it up into large fragments of coal, of a dark-reddish color.

Jacob Abbott - Jonas on a Farm in Winter