. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Insect Study 439 3. Have you ever seen the little black bee carrying pieces of rose leaves between her front feet ? With what instrument do you suppose she cut the leaves? Where do you think she was going? 4. Have you ever found the nest of the leaf-cutter bee? Was it in a tunnel made in dead wood or in some crack or cranny ? How many of the little rose leaf cups are there in it? How are the cups placed? Are the little bees stiU. in the cups or can you see the holes through which they
. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Insect Study 439 3. Have you ever seen the little black bee carrying pieces of rose leaves between her front feet ? With what instrument do you suppose she cut the leaves? Where do you think she was going? 4. Have you ever found the nest of the leaf-cutter bee? Was it in a tunnel made in dead wood or in some crack or cranny ? How many of the little rose leaf cups are there in it? How are the cups placed? Are the little bees stiU. in the cups or can you see the holes through which they crawled out? 5. Take one cup and study it carefully. How are the pieces of leaves folded to make the cups ? How is the lid put on ? Soak the cup in water until it comes apart easUy. Describe how many of the long pieces were used and how they were bent to make a cup. Oi how many thick- nesses is the cover made? Are the covers just the same size or a little larger than the top of the cup ? How does the cover fit so tightly ? 6. If you find the nest in July or early August, examine one of the cups carefully and see what there is in it. Take off the cover without injuring it. What is at the bottom of the nest? Is there an insect within it? How does it look? What is it doing? Of what do you think its food was made? How and by whom was the food placed in the cup? Place the nest in a box or jar with mosquito netting over the top, and put it out of doors in a safe and shaded place. Look at it often and see what this insect changes into. 7. If the mother bee made each little nest cup and put in the bee- bread, and honey for her young, which cup contains the oldest of the family? Which the youngest? How do you think the full-grown bees get out of the cup ? 8. Do you think that the same species of bee always cuts the same sized holes in a leaf? Is it the same species which cuts the rose leaves and the pansy petals ? THE LITTLE CARPENTER-BEE Teacher's Story AKE a dozen dead twigs from alm
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