Next, they " planted" fertilized oyster eggs, which within two or three weeks hatched into larvae. The larvae drifted until they attached themselves to the clean shells on the bottom.
One of the good things that you can do when you're sowing outside, and this goes for any kind of vegetable or hardy annual seed, use the stale seed bed method.
Their larders are swept and waiting, and the night after the lettuce seed bed has been watered down in the fatuous hope of its sprouting, the ants move in en masse and carry it home.