The entomologist's text book : an introduction to the natural history, structure, physiology and classification of insects, including the Crustacea and Arachnida . Queen Bee. in length, and some being so exceedingly minute as to beinvisible to the naked eye, except when seen creeping against HYMENOPTERA : HABITS. 377 the light upon a window. Many of the species Uve insocieties more or less numerous, as the bees, ants, andwasps; these assemblages consisting of males and females,and neuters, the latter being abortive females, and destinedto perform the more laborious duties of the
The entomologist's text book : an introduction to the natural history, structure, physiology and classification of insects, including the Crustacea and Arachnida . Queen Bee. in length, and some being so exceedingly minute as to beinvisible to the naked eye, except when seen creeping against HYMENOPTERA : HABITS. 377 the light upon a window. Many of the species Uve insocieties more or less numerous, as the bees, ants, andwasps; these assemblages consisting of males and females,and neuters, the latter being abortive females, and destinedto perform the more laborious duties of the , as the sand-wasps, &c., are solitary in theirhabits, but their economy is not less interesting thanthat of the former; since, although not exhibiting such avariety of remarkable physiological traits, the construction. AimiiDphila sabulosa its nest. of a nest, and the provisioning it with a supply of food forthe young when hatched, by a single insect, is sufficient toprove that the instincts of that insect are not less developedthan in cases where a particular duty devolves upon a par-ticular set of individuals. The food laid up in store by oneclass of these insects, consists of honey collected fromflowers; whilst in another class it consists of insects de-posited in cells by the parent fly. Another class have theinstinct to deposit their eggs in the already provisionedcells of the working classes, the young of which latter arestarved to death by the previous exclusion of the parasiticgrub, which devours the supply provided for the class is parasitic in a different sense of the word,depositing their eggs upon or within the bodies of otherinsects, chiefly in the larva state, the intestines of which K K 3 378 ORDERS OP PTILOTA. are preyed upon by the grubs when hatched. Others
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