Chapter II: The Ants:--Their Domestic Economy--Their Nuptials

Value of the ants as purifying and cleansing agents, 245
An incident at Barbadoes, 246
The carpenter-ants, and their ingenuity, described, 247
Singular affection which they display for the young, 251
They watch over them with incessant vigilance; their mode of
inter-communication, 251
A picture is given of the economy of an ant-hill, 252
In their labours the ants solve numerous problems by sheer intuition, 253
Their nuptials described as an idyllic poem, 254
What remained in the morning, 255