Insect artizans and their work . I I 2 ] I I i MB] I BEES Nl l . Page 151 Tin- lower photo shows a ground-built nest with tliu dome of shredded grass and moss removed. In the uppei photo a cluster of cells, mostly vacated, have been taken from their surroundings. Photos by A utkor. WAX-WORKERS 147 commencement of operations. Then a bee beginsto excavate in it the foundation of a cell. Sheworks for a time, and then goes off, another workertaking her place immediately and working for aspell. No one bee, therefore, completes a cell,but each is built up by a number of workers doinga little in
Insect artizans and their work . I I 2 ] I I i MB] I BEES Nl l . Page 151 Tin- lower photo shows a ground-built nest with tliu dome of shredded grass and moss removed. In the uppei photo a cluster of cells, mostly vacated, have been taken from their surroundings. Photos by A utkor. WAX-WORKERS 147 commencement of operations. Then a bee beginsto excavate in it the foundation of a cell. Sheworks for a time, and then goes off, another workertaking her place immediately and working for aspell. No one bee, therefore, completes a cell,but each is built up by a number of workers doinga little in succession. When the bottom beginsto take form, other bees work at a correspondingcell on the other side of the wax wall. It willbe seen that these three lozenge-shaped platesconstituting the bottom of the cell have each twofree margins—-six in all—and it is by building upthe walls from these margins that the hexagonalform of the cell is arrived at. As the work of thebuilders proceeds, the workers who are makingwax come and
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