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THE USE OF APHIS-EXCRETION AND BENEFIT DERIVED THEREFROM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Thomas G. Gentry
Affiliation:
germantown, PA.

Extract

It is well known to the popular as well as scientific world that the Aphides secrete or rather excrete a peculiarly viscid and honey-like fluid which forms one of the chief delicacies of Ants. That it was originally designed to form an article of food for the latter is a supposition that cannot be entertained for a single moment ; bnt that it is in some way connected with the preservation of the soft and tender beings by which it is manufactured, there can be no reasonable doubt.

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1874

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