Insects at home; being a popular account of insects, their structure, habits and transformations . in theillustration. The present species has five of these spines. Itscolour is exceedingly variable in detail, but is generally black,with yellow on the sides of the face and the clypeus. The ab-domen has a yellow spot on either side of each segment. The Bee is a burrower in the decayed wood of willow-trees, but, if possible, slie will take advantage of the desertedburrows of the Groat-moth, which will be described in the fol-lowing pages. In order to prepare a home for its future young,it goes t
Insects at home; being a popular account of insects, their structure, habits and transformations . in theillustration. The present species has five of these spines. Itscolour is exceedingly variable in detail, but is generally black,with yellow on the sides of the face and the clypeus. The ab-domen has a yellow spot on either side of each segment. The Bee is a burrower in the decayed wood of willow-trees, but, if possible, slie will take advantage of the desertedburrows of the Groat-moth, which will be described in the fol-lowing pages. In order to prepare a home for its future young,it goes to some down-covered plant, such as the campion, andstrips oflf the woolly covering, running along the stem, and 366 INSECTS AT HOME. shaving it quite bare. It then collects the bundle of downbetween its head and fore-legs, carries it off to the burrow,and with it makes a cocoon-like cell, binding together thefibres of down with some kind of glutinous material. Withinthis cell it places an egg and a quantity of pollen sufficient tolast the young grub throughout its larval condition. When IlZYLl. 1. Anthidium manicatum. 2. Bombus lapitlarius, female. 3. Do., neuter. 4. Do., Tongue of Anthidium. 6, Tongue of Bombus. c. Mandible of Anthidium. full-fed, the larva spins within its cell a silken cocoon, fromwhich it emerges in its j)erfect state somewhere about Mid-summer. This Bee presents one very remarkable point of differencefrom insects in general, the male being as much larger thanthe female as the female is usually larger than the male. Thespecies is quite a common one, especially towards the south ofEngland. USE OF A NOTCH. 3fi7 The Bee which occupies the centre of Phite XII. welldeserves its names of Eucera longicornis. The former ofthese two names is Greek, and signifies beautiful horns,while the latter is Latin, and signifies long-horned. Bothtitles are given to the insect on account of the great length ofthe antennae of the male, which are as long as the head,thora
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