This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ... a single main burrow from which the individual channels branch off (Fig. 309, A). These bees therefore have a tendency toward community life. The bumblebees, Bombus, live in colonies during the summer, but these colonies are temporary, since all members but the young queens perish in the autumn. And finally the honey ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ... a single main burrow from which the individual channels branch off (Fig. 309, A). These bees therefore have a tendency toward community life. The bumblebees, Bombus, live in colonies during the summer, but these colonies are temporary, since all members but the young queens perish in the autumn. And finally the honey-bees, as we have seen, are banded together in permanent colonies and have a very complex social life. The solitary wasps (eumenide) are miners, carpenters, or masons, i.e. they dig tunnels in the earth, excavate cavities in wood, or build mud-nests. Like the solitary bees, the Eu Fig. 308.--Order Hymenoptera. Ichneumon-fly, Tkalcssa lunalor, laying eggs (oviposition). (From Sedgwick's Zoology, after Riley.) menidae provision their nests, lay their eggs, and then fly away, leaving their young to shift for themselves. Many of the digger-wasps belong to the family SpheGidm.. The mud-daubers are common species. They attach their mud-nests to the ceilings of buildings or to the lower surface of stones, and provision them with spiders. The digger-wasps of the West 4 to Fig. 300.--Diagrams of nest burrows of short-tongued mining bees. A, nest of Baliclus. B, nest of Andrena. (From Hegner, after Kellogg.) (genus Ammophila, Fig. 310) paralyze caterpillars with their sting and place them in their burrows in the ground for the larvae to live on. The burrows are then carefully filled up with earth and the top made level with the surrounding surface. The social wasps (vespioe) live in temporary colonies containing females, males, and sexually undeveloped females, called workers. They do not leave their Fig. 310-Order Hymenoptera. to i;ve food stored up Solitary digger-wasp, Ammophila, . putting inchworm into nest burrow, for them, but care for them con (Fro..
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Good+ / no DJ / blue cloth with gilt / spine ends and corners. Light wear / text clean / crack starting at middle of text. Hundreds of b/w illustrations / owners signature / address inside front cover.
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Good. No Jacket. Ex-Libris. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 742 pp. Boards are rubbed on edges. Notation on end pages. Text pages are clean with no markings, binding is sound.
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