Word: bivouacs
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...about 17 days in a regular cycle, the colony moves its bivouac every night. Toward dusk one of the raiding columns loses its martial excitement, slows its pace. Then the raiders fall into a steady, plodding lockstep. At the far end of the column, up to 200 yards long, they clot together in a tight, solid mass. The news of the move spreads back to the previous bivouac. As raiders come in from forays in other directions, they turn and follow the plodding column...
...them slowly over the same path. The winged males straggle along, licked and caressed by the workers, but bitten fiercely if they try to fly away. The queen comes too, guarded by a crowding escort of fanatical worshipers. She plunges into the mass of her subjects at the new bivouac and disappears. The colony has moved...
...when does a queen begin her reproductive life? Dr. Schneirla is not sure, but he has a theory. While the queen is in a bivouac, she is always surrounded by a dense mass of workers, which struggle wildly to lick some substance exuded by her body. The males, no matter how eager, cannot get anywhere near...
...when the queen is on the march from bivouac to bivouac, she is relatively unguarded. Then, thinks Dr. Schneirla, the hitherto frustrated males may get their chance...
After three years in the Washington bivouac, rumpled, tubby, articulate Isaiah Berlin had left the British Embassy staff last week and gone home to London. As one of the Embassy's First Secretaries, he had for a time contributed more than any other one person to official British knowledge of the current...