HVMENOPTERA. 



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The females of the soUtary bees are impregnated Uke those of the 

 ihumble bees, and lay in spring, after having passed the winter 



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Fig- 339.— Carpenter Bee, Pupae, Eggs, Galleries, and Nests. 



sleep. They build a nest divided into cells, fill it with eggs, and 

 ■ith a honied paste shut it up, and die, without having seen their 

 rogeny hatched. 



