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of the live-box containing it, put an end to the observation. The Volvox 
did not seem disturbed by its strange occupant, but continued its 
stately revolutions as though they were not present.—B. WEBB 
NATURAL HISTORY CALENDAR. 
ara ins or Juty.—During mid-summer the bees and wasps 
y busy building their nests and rearing their young. The 
ener, late in June and the first of this month, send out their 
first broods of workers, and about the middle of the month the sec- 
ond lot of pri are laid, which produce the smaller-sized females and 
males, while those eggs laid late in the month and early in August, 
produce the centage queens, whi soon hatch. These hybernate: 
The habits of their peculiar parasite, TAS an insect which closely 
resembles the Humble-bee, are still unknown. 
The Leaf-cutter Bee (Meyachile) iiy ie seen flying about with 
pieces of rose-leaf, with which she builds, for a one of twenty days; 
. Putnam’s estimate,* at least one thousand pieces! The 
bees referred to “worked so mares, that they ruined five or six 
Tose-bushes, not leaving a single unblighted leaf uncut, and were then 
š forced to take the leaves of a locust tree as a substitute.” 
aper-making Wasps, of which Vespa maculata (Fig. 1), the 
ges Fig. 1 
Serted nest of the American eas Caterpillar. Numerous species 
of Wood Wasps (Crabronide) are panel in tunnelling the stems 
of the blackberry, the elder, and syringa, and enlarging and refitting 
aa es, and g in rotten ak storing their cells 
with flies, caterpillars, anhiden, and spiders, according to the habit 
oaa S a Cn TT 
#*&, 3. tha F: Tnctitute. vol. iv. p. 105. 
