The Honey Ants of the Garden of the Gods, and the Occident Ants of the American Plains

Abstract

LOOKING to the extensive and systematic work which Dr. McCook has already accomplished in the study of some of the most interesting species of New World ants, we are exceedingly glad to observe from this additional volume that he has now turned his serious attention to the honey ants, for, although the habits of this species were known to be certainly among the most remarkable of the many remarkable habits that are presented by the Hymenoptera, they have not hitherto engaged the study of any competent observer. As he himself observes, “Very little of their habits has heretofore been known, and only the forms of the honey-bearer and worker-major. In order, if possible, to remove this reproach from entomology, I started in the early part of July, A.D. 1879, for New Mexico.” The Honey Ants of the Garden of the Gods, and the Occident Ants of the American Plains. By Henry C. McCook (Philadelphia: Lippincott and Co., 1882.)