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Summary
Figure 3. Nest of Lasius americanus under stone. The stone has been removed, showing a prostrate plant-stem along which the ants have constructed an irregular gallery. An aphis tent of vegetable detritus is shown on the left-hand side of the figure where the plant-stem rose from under the stone.

Wheeler, William M. 1906. The habits of the tent-building ant (Cremastogaster lineolata Say). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 22 (1): 1–18.