The entomologist's text book : an introduction to the natural history, structure, physiology and classification of insects, including the Crustacea and Arachnida . Cells of the liive bee, showing mannerof uniting- at Hexagonal cells of the hive bee, withroyal cells attached. hibited by social insects in the construction of their nests,for then- own habitations and the rearing of their offspring,the collecting of food, and the feeding of young. 322 PTILOTA : PHYSIOLOGY AND If, on the other hand, we direct our attention to the pre-servation of the individual (and many of the peculiarities
The entomologist's text book : an introduction to the natural history, structure, physiology and classification of insects, including the Crustacea and Arachnida . Cells of the liive bee, showing mannerof uniting- at Hexagonal cells of the hive bee, withroyal cells attached. hibited by social insects in the construction of their nests,for then- own habitations and the rearing of their offspring,the collecting of food, and the feeding of young. 322 PTILOTA : PHYSIOLOGY AND If, on the other hand, we direct our attention to the pre-servation of the individual (and many of the peculiarities ofsocial insect life conduct us to this branch of our inquii-y),we find the subject also divides itself into two sections,namely, the various stratagems employed for obtaining asupply of food, and the means of active or passive defenceadopted by insects. With a few notices of some of the mostremarkable of each of these instinctive pecuharities, I shallclose the present branch of our subject. We have seen in the early part of this work that, fromthe very nature of the functions of the insect tribes, it is es-sential that the consumption by them of animal and veget-able matter should uninterruptedly be carried on. He
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