. The animal creation: a popular introduction to zoology. Zoology. Fig. 114.—humble bees; male, female, and -r-orker. moss-covered nests, where they live together in colonies varying from 60 to 200 or 300 in number. Hugh Miller thus shortly describes the principal species of humble bees: " When a boy at Cromarty," says that elegant writer, " the wild honey-bees in their several species had peculiar charms for us. There were the buff-coloured carders, that erected over their honey-jars domes of moss ; the lapidary, red-tipped bees, that built amidst the recesses of ancient cairns
. The animal creation: a popular introduction to zoology. Zoology. Fig. 114.—humble bees; male, female, and -r-orker. moss-covered nests, where they live together in colonies varying from 60 to 200 or 300 in number. Hugh Miller thus shortly describes the principal species of humble bees: " When a boy at Cromarty," says that elegant writer, " the wild honey-bees in their several species had peculiar charms for us. There were the buff-coloured carders, that erected over their honey-jars domes of moss ; the lapidary, red-tipped bees, that built amidst the recesses of ancient cairns, and in old dry stone walls, and were so invincibly brave in defending their homesteads, that they never gave up the quarrel till they died; and above all, the yellow-zoned humble-bees, that lodged deep in the ground, along the dry sides of the grassy bank, and were usually wealthier in honey than their congeners, and existed in large communities. But the herd-boy of the parish, and the foxes of its woods and brakes, shared in my interest in the wild honey-bees, and, in the pursuit of something else than knowledge, were ruthless robbers of their ;. 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 Jones, Thomas Rymer, 1810-1880. London : Society for Promoting Knowledge
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