Half hours with insects . -, having beenfirst prepared at the water, is broughtinto use, it is inspissated with some glutinous substanceejected by the insect. It is certainly very carefully kneadedagain by many of the clay-cell-builders. The Megachiledisjuncta has the same habits as the Woolly Megachile. A large proportion of the wild bees nest in the groundlike the Andrena ; a few bees, like the cuckoo, live a parasi-tic life in the cells of other bees. It is not well understoodwhat their young feed on, but it seems most probable that 26. CeUs of Leaf Cutter Bee. pacivakd] the social life of
Half hours with insects . -, having beenfirst prepared at the water, is broughtinto use, it is inspissated with some glutinous substanceejected by the insect. It is certainly very carefully kneadedagain by many of the clay-cell-builders. The Megachiledisjuncta has the same habits as the Woolly Megachile. A large proportion of the wild bees nest in the groundlike the Andrena ; a few bees, like the cuckoo, live a parasi-tic life in the cells of other bees. It is not well understoodwhat their young feed on, but it seems most probable that 26. CeUs of Leaf Cutter Bee. pacivakd] the social life of insects. 347 Fig. 258. they do not attack the larva? of their hosts, but steal theirbee-bread. The bumble or humble bee is truly social, and yet in amanner quite its own. Besides the males and queens, thereare a large number of workers, but they do not assist inbuilding any cells, as the larvae in part make their own habits of the humble bees in this country have beenstudied with much attention by Mr. Putnam. He shows b}independent observation that the queen which has hiber-nated, after selecting a site for her nest in an abandonedmouses-nest or stump, collects a small mass of pollen mixedwith honey, and in this depositsfrom seven to fourteen eggs, grad-ually adding to the pollen massuntil the first brood is it seems that as soon as thegrubs begin to eat they make cavi-ties in the mass, and when fullygrown spin an oval cocoon aboutthem. Thus the act of buildingthese oval cells is a purely mechan-ical one. Thes
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