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TUE HIVE AND HONEY-BEE. 
tional supply of food. Its augmented size exposing it to 
attaeks from surrounding foes, the wary insect fortifies 
its new abode with additional strength and thickness, by 
blending with the filaments of its silken covering a mix¬ 
ture of wax and its own excrement, for the external 
barrier of a new gallery,* the interior and partitions of 
which are lined with a smooth surface of white silk, which 
admits the occasional movements of the insect, without 
injury to its delicate texture. In performing these opera¬ 
tions, the insect might be expected to meet with opposi¬ 
tion from the bees, and to be gradually rendered more 
assailable as it advanced in age. It never, however, 
exposes any part but its head and neck, both of which 
are covered with stout helmets, or scales, impenetrable to 
the Sting of a bee, as is the composition of the galleries 
that surround it.”— Bevan. 
The worm is here given of full size, and with all its 
peculiarities carefully repre¬ 
sented. The scaly head is 
shown in one of the worms; 
while the three pairs of claw¬ 
like fore legs, and the five pairs 
of hind ones, which are suckers, are clearly delineated. 
The tail is also furnished with two of these suckers. The 
breathing holes are seen on the back. 
* This representation of the web, or gallery of the worm, was cooled from 
Swammerdam. 
