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Unlike bees, ants have two or three ' queens to a nest. Two ants working at ; 2 time are apparently sufficient _ to - «nrmlv a nest of three or four hunared with food. When Sir John Lubbock first noticed two working for a whole nest he thought that they might lie indivi- • duals remarkably' fond of work so he 1 removed them. Two others took their, : places in foraging; and, as soon as they j l ere also removed, two others took J jlacea,

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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 126, 30 May 1934, Page 17

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Untitled Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 126, 30 May 1934, Page 17

Untitled Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 126, 30 May 1934, Page 17