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INSECT ARCHITECTURE. 



kept moving by the proceedings in Ihe interior; for 

 the nurse-bees never form any portion of it, and 

 continue their activity— a distinction with which 

 Reaumur was unacouainted. 



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Curtain o/ Wax-zmrJccrs secreting Wax. 



Although there arc many thousand labourers in a 

 hive, they do not commence foundations for combs 



