INSECT INTRUDERS. 



the semi-elliptical combs of as much as 

 5 feet in length and 2^ feet in width are 

 affixed. Attimes, however, and especially 

 is this often the case in Northern Indian 

 jungles, you will find the nest attached to 

 a low bough in a dense thorny thicket. 

 Or the bees build in rocks and cliffs as in 

 the famous case of the Marble Rocks near 

 Jubbulpore. or affix the combs to build- 

 ings as in the case of the Taj at Agra, or 

 in caves as at Ajanta off Bombay. 



The nest contains three forms the 

 males or drones who do no work, the 

 females who lay the eggs and the 

 workers, who build the giant nests con- 

 sisting of a double row of hexagonal cells 

 placed end to end horizontally, which are 

 either filled with honey or wax or pollen 

 or are tenanted by the grubs or pupae 

 which subsequently become workers or 

 males or females according as they are 

 fed. 



These great colonies are perma- 

 nent, i.e., they do not die out at the close 

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