Bored by Ants.
The most dreaded insect invader is the white ant. In Africa their houses are dome-shaped moluids, often eighteen feeb high. These insects erect pyramids 1,000 times higher than themselves. The ants on their travels so conceal their approach that their presence is not suspected until the. damage is clone. They usually tunnel into any o.ject which they! attack, often reducing it to a mere shell. In this way they have been known to ascend within the leg of a table, devour the contents of a box upon ib, and descend bhr6ugh a tunnel bored in. anobher leg, all in one nighb. Ah officer, of. bhe English ! army, while calling upon some ladies in Ceylon, was startled by a rumbling sound. The ladies started wibh affirighb,, and the next instant; they stood with only the sky above them . the roof had fallen in and lay all about, leaving them miraculously unharmed. The ants had made their way up through the beams, hollowing them out until a great part of the framework of the house was ready to fall at the slightest shook.— "Sb. Nicholas.".
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Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 54, 2 July 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)
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