Agriculture: a multi-bladed toboggan for destroying ant-hills. Engraving by S.J. Neele, c.1803.

Australian Academy of Science : New Guinea ant, orectognathus velutinus / scanning electron micrograph: Dr. R. W. Taylor ; text; Dr. R. W. Taylor.

Ten insects, including an ichneumon, a gnat and a king, a queen, a labourer and a soldier ant. Engraving by G. F. Schroeder, ca. 1822.

179 pages, 15 pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.

Ants / by Derek Wragge Morley.

2 volumes, xxiv plate (part colour) : frontispiece (portraits), illustrations ; 23 cm

The social world of the ants compared with that of man ... / by Auguste Forel ; translated by C.K. Ogden.

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford, A.E. Shipley, assisted by A.K. Marshall. Hymenoptera. Vol.I, Wasps and bees. Vol.II, Ants and cuckoo-wasps / by C.T. Bingham. Vol. III, Ichneumonidae:-I. Ichneumones Deltoidei / by Claude Morley.

The ant world / [Derek Wragge Morley].

Ants : their structure, development and behavior / by William Morton Wheeler.

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Ants / by Derek Wragge Morley.

The social world of the ants compared with that of man ... / by Auguste Forel ; translated by C.K. Ogden.

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford, A.E. Shipley, assisted by A.K. Marshall. Hymenoptera. Vol.I, Wasps and bees. Vol.II, Ants and cuckoo-wasps / by C.T. Bingham. Vol. III, Ichneumonidae:-I. Ichneumones Deltoidei / by Claude Morley.

The ant world / [Derek Wragge Morley].

Ants : their structure, development and behavior / by William Morton Wheeler.

Ants

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Ants / by Derek Wragge Morley.

The social world of the ants compared with that of man ... / by Auguste Forel ; translated by C.K. Ogden.

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford, A.E. Shipley, assisted by A.K. Marshall. Hymenoptera. Vol.I, Wasps and bees. Vol.II, Ants and cuckoo-wasps / by C.T. Bingham. Vol. III, Ichneumonidae:-I. Ichneumones Deltoidei / by Claude Morley.

The ant world / [Derek Wragge Morley].

Ants : their structure, development and behavior / by William Morton Wheeler.

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