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She was moving back and forth with cautious mien, and I easily perceived was putting finishing touches to the closure of a little hole that marked the gate of her formicary hut.

The formicaries of the two species are often in close contact, so that the nature of the soil is precisely the same.

He can spend a happy day in watching the busy affairs of a formicary, and to observe the progress of a bit of spider-web architecture gives him a peculiar joy.

On one occasion, I took ten Lasius niger and confined them in a specially constructed formicary so that they could not possibly leave the nest.

Several queens often exist in one nest, and I have seen workers drag newly fertilized queens into a formicary to enlarge their resources.