. The hunting wasps [microform]. Guêpes; Wasps. w^'':<^^'mmmtL. THE RETURN TO THE NEST The Ammophila sinking her well at a late hour of the day leaves her work, after closing the orifice with a stone lid, flits iway from flower to flower goes to another part of the country, and vet next day is able to come back with her cater- pillar to the home excavated on the day before^ notwithstanding the unfamiliar locality, which is often quite new to her. The Bembex, laden with game, ahghts with almost mathematical precision on the threshold of her door, which is blocked with sand and indistinguisha
. The hunting wasps [microform]. Guêpes; Wasps. w^'':<^^'mmmtL. THE RETURN TO THE NEST The Ammophila sinking her well at a late hour of the day leaves her work, after closing the orifice with a stone lid, flits iway from flower to flower goes to another part of the country, and vet next day is able to come back with her cater- pillar to the home excavated on the day before^ notwithstanding the unfamiliar locality, which is often quite new to her. The Bembex, laden with game, ahghts with almost mathematical precision on the threshold of her door, which is blocked with sand and indistinguishable from the rest of the sandy expanse. Where my sight nd recollection are at fault, their eyes and their memory possess a sureness that is very nearly infallible. One would thmk that msects had something more subtle than mere remem- biance, a kind of intuition for places to which we have nothing similar, in short, an indefinable faculty which I call memory, failing any other expression to denote it. There can be no name for the unknown. In order to throw if possible u. 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 Fabre, J. Henri (Jean Henri), 1823-1915; Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, 1865-1921. London ; Toronto : Hodder and Stoughton
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