. Marvels of insect life [microform] : a popular account of structure and habit. Insects; Insectes. 4J8 Marvels of Insect Life. â¢â¢*, i(insi>ts III iiiilKii 111 Hhirli Millii iint Immv is aildiil In ciiabli' thi' Iht to kiuad it into a pasly Imiip. I'riMipis is witlmiit the usual iHilliii-inllirtiiin apparatus im tlit^ liind-U'ns ; and (or this reason it was kmn sus|)iit«d to lx> o( panisitiial habits. But though parasitism has Nin shown by Mr. K. ('. Perkins to bon\euliat triangular organ, broad in front. In the luighbouring genus coUctes, although the bees make their burrows in t
. Marvels of insect life [microform] : a popular account of structure and habit. Insects; Insectes. 4J8 Marvels of Insect Life. â¢â¢*, i(insi>ts III iiiilKii 111 Hhirli Millii iint Immv is aildiil In ciiabli' thi' Iht to kiuad it into a pasly Imiip. I'riMipis is witlmiit the usual iHilliii-inllirtiiin apparatus im tlit^ liind-U'ns ; and (or this reason it was kmn sus|)iit«d to lx> o( panisitiial habits. But though parasitism has Nin shown by Mr. K. ('. Perkins to bon\euliat triangular organ, broad in front. In the luighbouring genus coUctes, although the bees make their burrows in the ground, their cells are lined with the same material. They are less primitive than prosopis. and have the legs well clothed with hairs, but the\ have a similar shapid tongue, and mix a good deal of honey with their JMillen. They bring home a great quantity of pollen on their legs, but this is mixed in the cells with so much honey that, accnrd- iiig to Shuckard, the mass ferments, but is never- theless consumed by the grub without any ill results, the more liipiid portion l>eing consumeil lirst, the more solid later. S|>eaking of the uji- holstery work, this author says : " The beauty with which these cells are formed transcend- lonception. Uach consists of a succession of layers of a membrane more delicate than the thinnest gold-beater's skin, and more lustrous than the nuisl Ixautiful satin. In glitter it much resembles tin trail left by the snail, and is evidently, from all ix|X'riments made, a secretion of the Insect elaborated from some sjK-cial food it consumes, and by m' M its bilobated tongue, which it uses as a trowe!, it plasters with it the sides and the bottom of the tube it has excavated to ilie extent necessary for one division. .\s this secretion dries rapidly to a membrane it is succeeded by others to the number of three or four, wliidi be separated from each other by careful manipulation. It then stores this cell, deposits the egg,
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