Black and white photo from a science book of a queen ant She and her daughter are very similar in form but the daughter is smaller than her entire head . The caption reads: "FIG. 9. The large female of Atta cephalotes L. held on the author's finger and with one of her attendant minima workers which refused to leave her, A fernale laying eggs weighed 346 milligrams alive and the minima workers weighed 0.4 mg. Trinidad."
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