. Homes without hands : being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction . Animals. 458 HOMES WITHOUT The walls of the chamber they consider a sufficient protection for the combs. "If you expect them to form a substantial covering, the combs must be so placed as to have ample space around them; and if you expect them to fabricate a covering of great beauty, you must select the richest colored woods, and such as form the most striking contrasts, and place them so that the insects shall be in- duced, nay, almost compelled to use
. Homes without hands : being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction . Animals. 458 HOMES WITHOUT The walls of the chamber they consider a sufficient protection for the combs. "If you expect them to form a substantial covering, the combs must be so placed as to have ample space around them; and if you expect them to fabricate a covering of great beauty, you must select the richest colored woods, and such as form the most striking contrasts, and place them so that the insects shall be in- duced, nay, almost compelled to use them in the construction of their nest. This is exactly what I did with reference to the nest in ; Knowing from experience the difficulty of assaulting a Hor- net's nest, I asked Mr. Stone how he performed the .task, and was told that his ghief reliance was placed on chloroform. Approach- ing very cautiously to the nest, he twists some cotton wool round the end of a stick, soaks it in chloroform, and pushes it into the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889; Keyl, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1823-1871; Smith, E. A. (Edward Alfred); Pearson, G. (George). New York : Harper & Brothers
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