. Insect architecture : to which are added, miscellanies, on the ravages, the preservation for purposes of study, and the classification, of insects . Breeding-Cells.* Shapeless. CARDER-BEES. 69 phous masses of brown-coloured wax, varying in dimen-sions, but of a somewhat flat and globular shape. Onopening any of these, a number of eggs or grubs arefound, on whose account the mother bee has collectedthe masses of wax, which also contain a supply of pollenmoistened with honey, for their Interior views of Carder-bees Nest. The number of eggs or grubs found in one spheroidof wax var
. Insect architecture : to which are added, miscellanies, on the ravages, the preservation for purposes of study, and the classification, of insects . Breeding-Cells.* Shapeless. CARDER-BEES. 69 phous masses of brown-coloured wax, varying in dimen-sions, but of a somewhat flat and globular shape. Onopening any of these, a number of eggs or grubs arefound, on whose account the mother bee has collectedthe masses of wax, which also contain a supply of pollenmoistened with honey, for their Interior views of Carder-bees Nest. The number of eggs or grubs found in one spheroidof wax varies from three to thirty, and the bees in awhole nest seldom exceed sixty. There are three sizesof bees, of which the females are the largest; but neither 70 INSECT ARCHITECTURE. these nor the males are, as in the case of the hive-bee,-exempt from labour. The females, indeed, always foundthe nests, since they alone survive the winter, all therest perishing with cold. In each nest, also, are severalfemales, that live in harmony together. The carder-bees may be easily distinguished fromtheir congeners (of the same genus), by being not unlikethe colour of the withered moss with which they buildtheir nests, having the fore part of their back a dullorange, and hinder part ringed with different shades ofgreyish yellow. They are not so large as the commonhumble-bee (JBombus terrestris, Latr.), but rathershorter and thicker in the body than the common hive-bee {Apis melhyica). Lapidary-Bees. A bee s
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