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Updated: May 8, 2025
In this scroll the insect dozes until in process of time it is transformed, and emerges a bright but short-lived butterfly. But, as far as my personal observation goes, the green tree-ants do not effect any alteration in the superficial appearance nor destroy the structure of leaves, nor employ any physical power at the first stages of the construction of a habitation.
A few convulsive vibrations followed, and it hung down dead! Guapo was thinking in what way he might get it down, for he knew that unless he could reach it by some means, it would hang there until the weather rotted it off, or until some preying bird or the tree-ants had eaten it. He thought of his axe the tree was not a very thick one, and it was a soft-wood tree.
The troopers who had reduced their clothing to a minimum, for their sole vestment consisted of a forage-cap and cartridge-belt wound along as noiselessly as Lizzie; but we poor whites with our flannel shirts and other complicated paraphernalia that custom would not permit us to dispense with in the matter-of-fact way they were laid aside by our sable allies were getting into continual trouble; now hitched up helplessly by a lawyer vine, whose sharp prickles, like inverted fish-hooks, rent the skin; now crawling unsuspiciously against a tree-ants' nest, an indiscretion that the fierce little insects visited with immediate and most painful punishment; or else, becoming aware, by unmistakable symptoms, that we were trying to force a passage through a stinging tree-shrub.
A few convulsive vibrations followed, and it hung down dead! Guapo was thinking in what way he might get it down, for he knew that, unless he could reach it by some means, it would hang there until the weather rotted it off, or until some preying bird or the tree-ants had eaten it. He thought of his axe the tree was not a very thick one, and it was a soft-wood tree.
Unless the insect by its presence betrayed its secret, the shrewdest observer at close quarters would have been misled. There are reasons for the belief that green tree-ants understand and respect the laws of neutrality. There are several communities in the mango-trees, and since some of the trees overhang the fence, the top wire is used as a highway. When a gate is opened traffic is suspended.
It is to be doubted if the animal world holds more illustrious examples of heroism than a green tree-ants' nest.
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