Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit . s, though it works in softer materials as seems fitting to its diminutivesize. Ceratina needs no bulky post to accommodate its series of cells. Everybodyknows that the long shoots of the bramble that have borne this autumns crop of black-berries will die off in the winter and bec(jnio bi own and brittle. Next spring ceratinawill be taking stock of these, and looking for one tliat has a broken end. Into this shewill tunnel, clearing oat the pith to the length ol about a foot, dividing the cleared spaceinto tiny cells, laying an
Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit . s, though it works in softer materials as seems fitting to its diminutivesize. Ceratina needs no bulky post to accommodate its series of cells. Everybodyknows that the long shoots of the bramble that have borne this autumns crop of black-berries will die off in the winter and bec(jnio bi own and brittle. Next spring ceratinawill be taking stock of these, and looking for one tliat has a broken end. Into this shewill tunnel, clearing oat the pith to the length ol about a foot, dividing the cleared spaceinto tiny cells, laying an egg in each, and leaving a mass of suitable food. The partitionsbetween the cells arc made of the fragments of i^ith ctinented together by mc^ans ofher saliva. The little white and black osmia* is aiiolher native carju-nter bee,which drills out the dead bramble-stems, like ceratina, and constructs its crils ofthe pith, placing them end to end. In this resj^ect it differs from some of itsimmediate relations, wliich are masons and construct cells of sand and Photo by] Spotted Horia. [£. St-:p, A beetle which in the grub-stage is a parasite in the nest of th carpenterbee, and destroys the grubs of that Insect. It is a native ot the WestIndies; here shown one and a half times life size. Xyl<)co]ia teredi - Moiia maculat. ^ Ceratina c\anca. ? Osmia leiicomclana.
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