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 Ants are very numerous in Dominica, and are of everal orts; as the large black ant, the brown ant, the red ant, the flying ant, and the wood ant. The latter is the mot troubleome, as they are very detructive to trees, and the timber in houes; which they will reduce to dut in a hort time, if uffered to take up their abode therein. The bet method to prevent this is, to rub the timber with tar or turpentine, which hinders their attacking it, or, if already there, to prinkle arenic in their nets, which kills them.

The other orts of ants are injurious only to particular articles, as new own eed, the buds and fruit of trees, epecially in dry eaons, when ometimes they cover the ground in uch numbers, as is truly atonihing.