. Insect life; an introduction to nature study and a guide for teachers, students and others interested in out-of-door life. Entomology; Nature study. ROADSIDE LIFE. 267 The leaf-cutter bees do not always bore tunnels in which to place their cells. We have found these cells in a crack between shingles on a roof, in the cavity of a large branch of sumach, beneath stones lying on the ground, and, in Florida, in the tubular leaves of the pitcher-plant. Some species of bees make nests similar to those of the leaf-cutter bees, except that the cells are formed of pieces of petals of flowers. The pet
. Insect life; an introduction to nature study and a guide for teachers, students and others interested in out-of-door life. Entomology; Nature study. ROADSIDE LIFE. 267 The leaf-cutter bees do not always bore tunnels in which to place their cells. We have found these cells in a crack between shingles on a roof, in the cavity of a large branch of sumach, beneath stones lying on the ground, and, in Florida, in the tubular leaves of the pitcher-plant. Some species of bees make nests similar to those of the leaf-cutter bees, except that the cells are formed of pieces of petals of flowers. The petals of Pelargonium are often used for this purpose. â r.'^^i. THE CLIFF-DWELLERS. There are many bees, wasps, and digger-wasps that build their nests in the sides of cliffs, reminding one of the habitations built by certain communities of Indians in the far West. The insect cliff - dwellers prefer sandy cliffs, and it often happens that a sand- bank becomes so thickly studded with the burrows of these insects that it looks as if it had been used as a target for practice with a shotgun. The most abundant of these cliff-dwellers are the minute bees belonging to the genus Halictus {Ha-lic'- tus). These are the smallest of all our bees, measur- ing only from one tenth to three tenths of an inch in length. Great numbers of them can be seen during the warmer parts of the day, flying back and forth, ^^^'%l. 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 Comstock, John Henry, 1849-1931; Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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