tlYMENOPTERA. 



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The females of the solitary bees are impregnated like those of the 

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



Figs. 336, 337, 338.— Anthophora parietina. 



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



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

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

 progeny hatched. 



