VI CONTENTS. 



Pan 



Compared with our joiners 50 



Elder and Bramble Carpenter Bees 51 



Carpenter- Wasps 52 



Curious cocoon of , .53 



Upholsterer-Bees . . ib, 



Poppy- Flower Bee of Largs and of Bercy .... 64 



Taste of the little architects in ornament . . 56 



Cotton-gathering- Bee 67 



Rose- Leaf- Cutter Bee 59 



Her method of working 60 



Anecdote of Sir Francis Xavier 63 



CHAPTER IV. 



Carder-Bees 64 



Method of preparing and conveying their materials . . 65 



Structure of their nests 67 



Lapidary-Bees 70 



Pertinacity in defending their nests • . . . . ib. 



Humble-Bees ib. 



Structure of their nests ib. 



Social-Wasps 71 



Nest founded by a single female ib. 



Compared with the Burrowing-Owl 72 



Materials rasped off from wood ...... 74 



Different opinions of Naturalists ...... 75 



Paper made by Wasps ib. 



Structure of the nest 76 



Extraordinary number of cells 78 



Hornet's nest ...... ... 79 



Tree-Wasps' nests in Ayrshire ....!. 81 



Rose-shaped Wasps' nest 82 



Vertical- Wasps' nest 83 



Wasp-paper compared with ours 85 



Card- making Wasp of Cayenne 87 



CHAPTER V. 



Architecture of the Hive-Bee 89 



Discoveries, from Aristomachus to Maraldi and Hubcr . . ib. 



Nurse-Bees and Wax- Workers 91 



Preparation of wax 93 



Erroneous account by the Abbe la Pluche .... 94 



Conjectures of Reaumur 95 



Discovery of John Hunter ...... .96 



Experiments of M. Huber 97 



Singular facts by Mr. Wiston ]00 



Dissections by Madlle Jurine and M. LatreiUe . , , 102 



Propolis 105 



Opinions of old Naturalists 106 



Discovery by Huber ib. 



Various uses of propolis ]09 



Mr. T. A. Knight's observations ib. 



Basket for carrying on the thighs of Bees . . . .110 



Process of loading jll 



Buitdiiiy of tho cells ih. 



Division of labour 112 



