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INSECT ARCHITECTURE. 



kept moving by the proceedings in the interior; for 

 the nurse-bees never form any portion of it, and 

 continue their activity — a distinction with which 

 Reaumur was unacquainted. 



Curtain of Wnx-zcorkcrs secreting TVax. 



Although there are many thousand labourers in a 

 Jaive, they do not commence foundations for combs 



