NEST OF THE CARDER BEE. 
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but at the approach of night it is closed again. 
This opening, although most convenient for the 
bees to use in passing out and in, is never em- 
ployed for that purpose. They always use the 
regular entrance, which is a long, curved way 
opening at the bottom of the nest. This passage 
way is about a foot long and half an inch wide. 
The interior of the carder bee’s nest presents 
but little of that beautiful regularity and symmetry 
which we have noticed in the bee-hive. We find 
Interior of a Carder Boc’s Nest. 
only a few egg-shaped, dark-colored cells, placed 
somewhat irregularly, but nearer to a horizontal 
than a perpendicular position, and connected to- 
gether by small, shapeless columns of brown wax. 
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