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THE SUBSTITUTE. 
First of these the bees, Apina, 
Called by authors Anthophila, 
Or in English flower-lovers, 
For they fly among the flowers, 
Revelling, rifling all their sweetness, 
Gathering pollen, sucking nectar. 
Changing these to wax and honey. 
Building cells with skilful neatness, 
Waxen cells, and all six-sided. 
Waxen cells to hold their young ones. 
Many live in crowded cities. 
Many thousands in a city. 
Like a kingdom or a queendom. 
Female Sovereign, drones and workers. 
Their antennae stout and elbowed. 
Fore wings flat and never folded. 
Hind shanks flattened out and bristly. 
Formed for carrying loads of pollen. 
Feet as in the rest five-jointed. 
Body joined by a peduncle. 
Armed with sting acutely slinging. 
Next the bees, the wasps, Vespina, 
Make the cells but not the honey. 
Build with skill their spacious mansions. 
Build their cells and combs with paper. 
Paper of the finest texture. 
Paper also manufactured 
By these energetic workmen. 
In these buildings, in these mansions. 
Wasps will multiply by thousands. 
Sovereign queen, and drones, and workers. 
Their antennte somewhat elbowed. 
Each fore wing is folded lengthwise. 
Body joined by a peduncle. 
And their tail is always furnished 
With a sting of fearful power ; 
Their hind shanks are plain and simple. 
Formed not for collecting pollen. 
And their feet are all five-jointed. 
Such, in brief, are the Vespina, 
Black and yellow wasps, Vespina. 
Sandwasps follow next in order, 
Sandwasps, fossors or Sphecina, 
Insects that delight to burrow 
In the soft and crumbling sandbanks, 
Making little excavations 
