Insect artizans and their work . Plate Nests of Carpenter-bee. Page 98 The shafts bored in dead wood are divided into cells by partitions of agglutinated wood-fragments. These are provisioned with a mixture of honey and polkn and an egg laid in each. The cells show succeeding stages in development, beginning with the egg in the lower right-hand cell. Drawn by T. Carreras*. — X c w =-?= CARPENTERS AND WOOD-WORKERS 99 it by painting its surfaces, dipping it in creosote,or coating it with some other substance noxiousto insects. Having obtained a post suitable for her purpose,the Carpenter Bee set
Insect artizans and their work . Plate Nests of Carpenter-bee. Page 98 The shafts bored in dead wood are divided into cells by partitions of agglutinated wood-fragments. These are provisioned with a mixture of honey and polkn and an egg laid in each. The cells show succeeding stages in development, beginning with the egg in the lower right-hand cell. Drawn by T. Carreras*. — X c w =-?= CARPENTERS AND WOOD-WORKERS 99 it by painting its surfaces, dipping it in creosote,or coating it with some other substance noxiousto insects. Having obtained a post suitable for her purpose,the Carpenter Bee sets about her work by cuttingwith her jaws an oblique tunnel about half an inchin diameter. Before this has extended far intothe wood she alters the direction of further excava-tion and makes her boring run straight she gnaws the wood it is reduced to the conditionof sawdust, and this all has to be carried out ofthe hole, or her further efforts would be broughtto a standstill. But instead of scattering theexcavated material, as some of the miners in sandand earth do, she keeps it all together in a heap tobe available for use later on. She cuts and cuts away until her tube is a footor fifteen inches deep and of equal width through-out its length. At the bottom she gives it a turnagain to the exterior. Having performed this greatwork, she proceeds to w
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