. The bee and white ants, their manners and habits; with illustrations of animal instinct and intelligence. Bees; Instinct; Termites. Fig. 76.—Hiving a swarm. THE BEE. ITS CHARACTER AND MATWERS. CHAPTEE II. This fecundity not anomalous.—36. Bee arcHtectnre.—37. Social condition of a people indicated by their bnildings.—38. This teat applied to the bee. — 39. Individual and collective habits. — 40. Solitary bees.—41. Structure of their nests.—42. Situation of nests. — 43. Anthidium manicatum. — 44. Expedient for keeping nest warm.—45. Clothier bee.—46. Carpenter bee.—47. Mason bee.—48. Expedien
. The bee and white ants, their manners and habits; with illustrations of animal instinct and intelligence. Bees; Instinct; Termites. Fig. 76.—Hiving a swarm. THE BEE. ITS CHARACTER AND MATWERS. CHAPTEE II. This fecundity not anomalous.—36. Bee arcHtectnre.—37. Social condition of a people indicated by their bnildings.—38. This teat applied to the bee. — 39. Individual and collective habits. — 40. Solitary bees.—41. Structure of their nests.—42. Situation of nests. — 43. Anthidium manicatum. — 44. Expedient for keeping nest warm.—45. Clothier bee.—46. Carpenter bee.—47. Mason bee.—48. Expedient to protect the nesfc.—49. Upholsterer bee.—50. Hang- ings and carpets of her rooms.—51. Leaf-cutter bees.—52. Method of making their nest.—53. Process of cutting the leaves.—54. Hive- bee.—55. Structure of the comb.—56. Double layer of cells.—57. Pyramidal bases.—58. Illustrative figures.—59. Single cells.—60. Combination of cells.—61. Great advantages of hexagonal form.—62. Economy of space and materiaL—63. Solidity of structure.—64. Greome- trical problem of the comb solved.—66. Expedient to secure the sides and bases of the cells. 35. The prodigious fecundity of the queen of the bees is by no means an anomaly in the insect world. The female of the white ants produces eggs at the rate of one per second, or 3600 per hour, or 86400 per day. Now, although this insect certaioly does not Larsbeb's Mcseuh o; Soienoe. o 17 Nc. 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 Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859. London, Lockwood & co
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