22 
THE BUGOLOGIST 
what other bee lives alone? Oh, yes, you remember. 
The Carpenter-bee is the one. When you watch the 
Mud-wasps by the mud-puddle you think there are 
swarms of them but there are not. 
Let us now recall all the insects we have watched 
and know something about. 
There is first the Tame bee of which everybody 
knows something; then the wild bees.—The Humble- 
bee, (Bombus), the Carpenter-bee, (Xylocopa), the Paper- 
wasp, (Vespse). Then we noticed also the work of the 
Gall-fly. If you will open the gall-apples carefully you 
may succeed in finding a larva and possibly an actual 
specimen of Gall-fly. 
Of course there are many, many other kinds of bees,. 
but I have not time to tell you all now. There is how¬ 
ever another family of insects, belonging to this same 
order—the hymenoptera—of which I must tell you— 
the ants. 
THE ANTS. 
One more family, belonging to the same order with 
the bees, we shall try to find out something about them, 
and then go to another order. 
We still are in the shop. My brother once kept 
honey here and probably a few stray drops have fallen. 
