. A manual of zoology. Zoology. 42 G ARTHROrODA scNcral families, the more pi-ominent being tlie IcnXFrMOXTP-T, , and CiL\LCiDiD_3: i^ng. 475 i. ilio<c of ilie lirst large, the others small or minute. These are of immense \alue to agrieiilture, as the\' keep down in- jurious forms as no eeonomic entomologists or inseeticides ean. Sub Order III. IW. Females with slings, lar\;v footless, luaggot- like. The digger wasps ^1-\issori:s) exeavate tubes in earth or wood whieh thev store with inseets paralv/.ed by tlie sling, to ser\e as lood lor the lar\a\ Some true wasps
. A manual of zoology. Zoology. 42 G ARTHROrODA scNcral families, the more pi-ominent being tlie IcnXFrMOXTP-T, , and CiL\LCiDiD_3: i^ng. 475 i. ilio<c of ilie lirst large, the others small or minute. These are of immense \alue to agrieiilture, as the\' keep down in- jurious forms as no eeonomic entomologists or inseeticides ean. Sub Order III. IW. Females with slings, lar\;v footless, luaggot- like. The digger wasps ^1-\issori:s) exeavate tubes in earth or wood whieh thev store with inseets paralv/.ed by tlie sling, to ser\e as lood lor the lar\a\ Some true wasps ha\"o similar habits. Most wasps A'i-:s1':') and bees (.\riARi-V:") build wonderful homes of chewed wood or leaves, earth, etc., or of wax whieh the animals O'oes") secrete between the jiiints of the abdomen. The nests for the voung, are either small tubes or hexagonal cells wdiich are united to 'combs;' the food is either honey, pollen, or chewed fruits. The fact that the. Ftc. 476.âHeads of .!,''.â >â iiicIUfica (after Boas), the eoutooiinj e\"cs mee i7, queen; I\ worker; e. dr with uiLT ;\Lio\L offspring are better protected when numerous individuals guard them has apparently led to dilTercnt grades of social slates. The honey l>ees {â if'is â mcl!ipi\r-'), which live in a colon\', consist 01 three kinds of individuals distin- guished bv structure of the heail i_hg. 47O) and other features: a single cpieen, some hundred drones, and ten to thirtv thousand, just before swarming e\en sixtv thousand, \\orkers. Idiese last are females and hence ha\"e stings, but ha\e rudimentary fuuctionless sexual organs; their work being to build the home, to protect the young, and provide food for the winter, and for the voung broodâ honev and pollen. The i|ueen copulates but once, at the beginning of her reign, when she and a drone take a wedding llight. For the four vears of her life the siierni retains its vitalilv in the recejitaculum senhnis. In l
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