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cornfield ant

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noun

  1. a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.

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The tidy housewife usually places the ant in the same category with cockroaches and bed-bugs and the corn growers attribute much of the injury to young corn to the work of the small cornfield ant which acts as a shepherd of the corn root-louse.

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