. The bee and white ants, their manners and habits; with illustrations of animal instinct and intelligence. Bees; Instinct; Termites. INSTINCT AND INTELLIGENCE. â of old â wood to which they can find access, a. quantity of the woody fibre, -which they collect into a heap and moisten with. Fig. 25.âUndcrgi'ound Wasp's uest. -riscid liquid secreted in their mouths. They knead this with "their jaws until they form it into a mass of pulp similar pre- cisely to that which the paper-maker produces from the vegetable fibre of linen or cotton rags. With this pulp, they fly off to their nests, whe
. The bee and white ants, their manners and habits; with illustrations of animal instinct and intelligence. Bees; Instinct; Termites. INSTINCT AND INTELLIGENCE. â of old â wood to which they can find access, a. quantity of the woody fibre, -which they collect into a heap and moisten with. Fig. 25.âUndcrgi'ound Wasp's uest. -riscid liquid secreted in their mouths. They knead this with "their jaws until they form it into a mass of pulp similar pre- cisely to that which the paper-maker produces from the vegetable fibre of linen or cotton rags. With this pulp, they fly off to their nests, where, by walking backwards and forwards, they spread it â out into leaves of the necessary thinness by means of their jaws, tongue, and legs. This operation is repeated many times, until at length as much of the paper is produced as is suflicient to roof in the nest. The thinness of this wasp-made paper is about the same as that of the book now in the hands of the reader. The coating of the nest consists of fifteen or sixteen leaves of this paper placed one outside the other, -with small spaces between them as shown in the figure, so that if rain shoidd chance to penetrate one or two of them, its progress may be arrested by the inner ones. 92, The interior of the nest consists of from twelve to fifteen horizontal layers of comb placed one over the other so as to form 15i. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859. London, Lockwood & co
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