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and splintered trees. The fibers are treated with salivary 

 secretions, and reduced to a pulp in the mouth of the 

 wasp. The pulp is then fashioned into cell wall, where 

 it quickly dries and hardens. How is paper made from 

 wood in paper factories ? 

 III. Contents :- 



1. Is there any food stored in it? 



2. Where is the egg placed in the empty cell? 



3. Is the larva shut up with a store of food, or given 

 food as it needs it? 



4. At what stage in the life of the young is its cell 

 capped over? 



Study the metamorphosis, as before directed for the 

 mud wasp, and make a serial drawing showing its life 

 history. 



THE HONEYBEE. 



The Honeybee is the best known of the Hymenoptera. 

 It may be sought wherever there are flowers. 



Make a study of its foraging habits and of its structure, 

 following the directions given for the bumblebee. Then 

 get a bee-keeper friend to show you through a movable- 

 frame hive in his apiary. Ask him to show you the sol- 

 itary female called queen, and the clumsy males called 

 drones. Ask him about the swarming habits. If. you 

 have not this privilege, then read in Quinby's " New Bee 

 Keeping," or Professor Cook's "Manual of the Apiary," 

 the chapters on the natural history of the honeybee. 



The Comb. Examine a piece of empty honeycomb, 

 and note : 



1. The shape and arrangement of the cells on one side. 



2. The meeting, at their bases, of cells on opposite sides 

 of the comb. What mechanical and economical advan- 

 tages do you discover in such construction? Does this 



