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Insect Architecture. 



engraving, they are not placed with any regularity, but seem 

 to be tossed about at random. 



Some of the cells contain larvae, in others, those closely 

 sealed, lie the pupae in different stages of development, and 



some of the cells are filled with a very fragrant aad sweet 

 honey, which, however, is injurious to many persons, giving 

 them severe and persistent headaches, even though taken in 

 small quantities.] 



SOCIAL- WASPS. 



The nest of the common wasp (Vespa vulgaris) attracts 

 more or less the attention of everybody; but its interior 

 architecture is not so well known as it deserves to be, for 

 its singular ingenuity, in which it rivals even that of the 

 hive-bee (Apis mellifica). In their general economy the 

 social or republican wasps closely resemble the humble- 

 bee (Bombus), every colony being founded by a single 



