In the foreground is an Earwig (Forjicula vulgaris), surrounded by her brood 

 as a hen by her chickens. Above, on the leaf of a rose-bush, is an out-door 

 Spider (a beautiful species, white with crimson markings), keeping guard over 

 her numerous eggs, enveloped in a covering of bluish silk. The leaf behind 

 her has been converted by her industry into a nest, from which, with her eggs, 

 she is supposed to have been dislodged. On the wooden pale opposite is the 

 excavated nest, with enclosed cocoons of a mother " Carpentress," amongst the 

 solitary wasps (Eumenes), who is flying up towards it. On one of the leaflets 

 of the rose above it is a Leaf-cutter Bee (Megachile centuncularis), employed in 

 excision of one of the circular pieces used in the lining of her nest ; and above 

 flies another of the same " Upholsterer " craft. 



INSTINCTS OF MATERNITY. 



THE POPPY BEE. 



HE subject of our opening remarks belongs to 

 one of those solitary, that is to say, not social, 

 tribes which, from their ingenious manner of 

 fitting up or furnishing their nests, have 

 acquired the name of " Upholsterers" or 

 " Leafcutters ;" the popular designation of " Poppy " being 



