Natural history of insects : comprising their architecture, transformations, senses, food, habits--collection, preservation and arrangement . Nest of the Card-muTccrWasp, rvlth part removed to shero the aiTcmccmentof the Cells. Chapter V. Architecture of the Part of a honeycomb, and bees at worlc. Although the hive-bee (Apis meUiJica) has engagedthe attention of the curious from the earhest ages,recent discoveries prove that we are yet only begin-ning to arrive at a correct knowledge of its wondeifulproceedings. Pliny informs us that Aristomachus, ofSoles, in Crlicia, devoted fifty-
Natural history of insects : comprising their architecture, transformations, senses, food, habits--collection, preservation and arrangement . Nest of the Card-muTccrWasp, rvlth part removed to shero the aiTcmccmentof the Cells. Chapter V. Architecture of the Part of a honeycomb, and bees at worlc. Although the hive-bee (Apis meUiJica) has engagedthe attention of the curious from the earhest ages,recent discoveries prove that we are yet only begin-ning to arrive at a correct knowledge of its wondeifulproceedings. Pliny informs us that Aristomachus, ofSoles, in Crlicia, devoted fifty-eight years to thestudy; and that Philiscus the Thracian spent hiswhole life in forests for the purpose of observingthem. But in consequence (as we may naturallyinfer) of the imperfect methods of research, as-VOL. IV. 8* 90 INSECT ARCHITECTURE. suming that what they did discover was known toAristotle, Columella, and Pliny, we are justified inpronouncing the statements of these philosophers, aswell as the embellished poetical pictures of Virgil, tobe nothing more than conjecture, almost in every par-ticular erroneous. It was not indeed till 1712, whenglass hives were invented by Maraldi, a mathema-tician of Nice, that what we may call the in-doorproceedings of b
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