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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    Cuarren IV, Carder-Bees ; Humble-Bees ; Social-Wasps. Tue bees and wasps, whose ingenious architecture bours. Those we are about to describe live in so- ciety. ‘The perfection of the social state among this class -of insects is certainly that of the hive-bees, They are the inhabitants of a large city, where the arts are carried to a higher excellence than in small districts, enjoying little communication of intelli- gence. But the bees of the villages, if we may follow up the parallel, are not without their interest. Such are those which are called carder-bees and humble bees. XN CarpeEr-BeEEs. nates carders (Bombus muscorum, Larr.), are by no means uncommon, and are well worth the study of the naturalist. . During the hay harvest, they are fre- quently met with by mowers in the open fields and meadows; but they may sometimes be discovered in hedge-banks, the borders of copses, or among moss- grown stones. The description of the mode of build- writers on insects from Réaumur; though he is not a little severe on those who write, without having ever had a single nest in their possession. We have been able to avoid such a reproach; for we have now before
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