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on her tail, and her first step, under cover of the moss, 

 is to surround with wax a mass of pollen saturated 

 with honey, construct a cell, in which she lays several 



Fig. 61.— Nest of Bumble-bee showing the barrel-shaped cells hidden 

 underground in a hollow which leads to the surface by a curved shaft. 

 — {After J. G. Wood. From Wood's 'Strange Dwellings.'' By 

 permission of Messi'S. Longmans, Green & Co.) 



eggs, then closes it and rests awhile. A few more 

 cells are then built, stored with honey mixed with 

 pollen, and closed. By this time, however, the first 

 larva? have hatched, and only being provided with 



