nest-chamber

Updated: August 13, 2026

In the honey-ants of Colorado and tropical America certain individuals pass their time suspended from the roof of a large nest-chamber, where they receive the sweet juice brought in by the workers. They serve as animated preserve jars, distended sometimes to the size of a grape with the communal stores of food, which they return to the workers when external sources of food may fail.

Henry Edward Crampton - The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope