Harvesting

Har"vest*ing, a. & n., from Harvest, v. t.

Harvesting ant (Zoöl.), any species of ant which gathers and stores up seeds for food. Many species are known.

☞ The species found in Southern Europe and Palestine are Aphenogaster structor and A. barbara; that of Texas, called agricultural ant, is Pogonomyrmex barbatus or Myrmica molifaciens; that of Florida is P. crudelis. See Agricultural ant, under Agricultural.