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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    as he imagined, of the absence of the foundress hornet at the time it was removed, he could not get the other five hornets, of which the colony consisted, either to add to the building or repair the damages which it had sustained. Varo M. Réaumur differs from our English naturalists, White, Kirby, and Spence, with respect to the ma- terials employed by the hornet for building. The latter say that it employs decayed wood; the former, that it uses the bark of the ash-tree, but takes less | pains to split it into fine fibres than wasps do; not, structing the suspensory columns of the platforms, a gr is prepared little inferior to that made by wasps. e cannot, from our own observations, decide which |
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