Insect architecture / [Anon].

  • James Rennie
Date:
1830
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Insect architecture / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    | CARPENTER-BEES. \ 49 nests and passages by which they are approac ed. B, a portion of the prop, half the natural size. C, a piece of thin stick, pierced by, the carpenter-bee, and split, to show the nests. D. Perspec- tive view of one of the partitions. E, Carpenter-bee (Xylocopa vtolacea).-F', Teeth of the carpenter-bee greatly magnified: a, the upper side.; 8, lower side + purpose, she cements round a wall a-ring of wood chips, taken from her store heap ; and within this ring forms another, gradually contracting the diameter till she has constructed a circular plate, about the thick- ness of a crown-piece, and of considerable hardness.
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