Hedgerow Life 
before now written to the newspapers to 
say SO. 
Then there are all sorts of other 
insects, and their ways and habits are as 
interesting as those of the moths and 
butterflies. The yellow-banded and the 
red-tailed bumble-bees are regular honey- 
making bees, but they only live in small 
numbers, and their cells are not so 
cleverly constructed; and instead of 
storing up their, honey they eat it as fast 
as they make it. After their long winter 
sleep, those which are left alive wake up 
one warm spring day and go buzz-buzz 
along the fields, poking their heads into 
all sorts of holes and corners, looking for 
a nice convenient hole in which to make 
their nests. Perhaps they choose an old 
mouse-hole or other small hollow in the 
ground, or hedge-bank, where they make 
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