The Cambridge Natural History, 6. köideSir Arthur Everett Shipley Macmillan and Company, limited, 1899 |
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... remarkable part of the proboscis , the long , delicate , hairy organ which the bee thrusts out from the tip of the shining tube formed by the labial palps and the maxillae , described above , and which looks like a prolongation of the ...
... remarkable part of the proboscis , the long , delicate , hairy organ which the bee thrusts out from the tip of the shining tube formed by the labial palps and the maxillae , described above , and which looks like a prolongation of the ...
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... remarkable of all the bees are the species of Euglossa . This genus is peculiar to Tropical America , and derives its name from the great length of the proboscis , which in some species surpasses that of the body . The colours in ...
... remarkable of all the bees are the species of Euglossa . This genus is peculiar to Tropical America , and derives its name from the great length of the proboscis , which in some species surpasses that of the body . The colours in ...
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... remarkable for the diversity of instinct displayed in the formation of the nests of the various species . As a rule they avail themselves for nidification of hollow places already existing ; choosing excavations in wood , in the FIG ...
... remarkable for the diversity of instinct displayed in the formation of the nests of the various species . As a rule they avail themselves for nidification of hollow places already existing ; choosing excavations in wood , in the FIG ...
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... remarkable , and it induced Fabre to make some further experiments . He took some cocoons containing dead specimens of Osmia , and placed them in the road of an Osmia ready for exit , and found that in such case the bee made its way out ...
... remarkable , and it induced Fabre to make some further experiments . He took some cocoons containing dead specimens of Osmia , and placed them in the road of an Osmia ready for exit , and found that in such case the bee made its way out ...
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... remarkable , each species of Psithyrus resembles the Bombus with which it usually lives . There appear , however , to be occasional exceptions to this rule , Smith having seen one of the yellow- banded Psithyrus in the nest of a red ...
... remarkable , each species of Psithyrus resembles the Bombus with which it usually lives . There appear , however , to be occasional exceptions to this rule , Smith having seen one of the yellow- banded Psithyrus in the nest of a red ...
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Page 404 - ... it places its cocoon. Several of these caterpillars unite together, and selecting a long and vigorous immature shoot or leader of the orange tree they kill it by cutting into its base until it wilts and bends over. The leaves of a young shoot, in drying, turn a light tan-color, which harmonizes most perfectly with the hairy locks of the caterpillar covering the cocoon. The latter is, consequently, not easily detected, even wbeu placed upon the exposed and. upturned surface of the leaf.
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Page 176 - Such a column is of enormous length, and contains many thousands if not millions of individuals. I have sometimes followed them up for two or three hundred yards without getting to the end. They make their temporary habitations in hollow trees, and sometimes underneath large fallen trunks that offer suitable hollows. A nest that I came across in the latter situation was open at one side. The ants were clustered together in a dense mass, like a great swarm of bees, hanging from the roof, but reaching...
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Page 176 - ... of ants, others the legs and dissected bodies of various insects. I was surprised to see in this living nest tubular passages leading down to the centre of the mass, kept open just as if it had been formed of inorganic materials. Down these holes the ants who were bringing in booty passed with their prey. I thrust a long stick down to the centre of the cluster, and brought out clinging to it many ants holding larvœ and pupas, which probably were kept warm by the crowding together of the ants.