Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants
by Edward Saunders
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About this eBook
- Author
- Saunders, Edward, 1848-1910
- Title
- Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QL: Science: Zoology
- Subject
- Ants
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 33874
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33874
- Release Date
- October 18, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.WILD BEES, WASPS AND ANTS — WILD BEES, WASPS AND ANTS — And Other Stinging Insects — EDWARD SAUNDERS — PREFACE — CONTENTS — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT — DESCRIPTION OF THE COLOURED PLATES — THE SUBJECT IN GENERAL — THE SOLITARY GROUPS — THE SOLITARY BEES — THE CUCKOO BEES — THE FOSSORS OR DIGGERS — THE SOLITARY WASPS — THE SOCIAL GROUPS — THE ANTS — THE SOCIAL WASPS — THE HUMBLE BEES — THE BEES WITH BIFID TONGUES — THE BEES WITH POINTED TONGUES — LEAF-CUTTING BEES — OSMIA AND ITS HABITS — A COLONY OF ANTHOPHORA — BEES AND POLLEN-COLLECTING — ON BEES' TONGUES, AND HOW THEY SUCK HONEY — A DREADFUL PARASITE — AMONGST THE BEES AT WORK — ANTS, THEIR GUESTS AND THEIR LODGERS — HOW CAN AN "ACULEATE" BE RECOGNIZED? — MALES AND FEMALES — THE VAGARIES OF COLOUR AND STRUCTURE IN THE SEXES — THE DISTRIBUTION, RARITY, OR ABUNDANCE OF VARIOUS SPECIES — ON BEES' WINGS — ON BREEDING ACULEATES, ETC. — ON COLOUR — THE DEVELOPMENT OF INSECTS FROM THE EGG — ON STRUCTURE — INDEX — NOTES
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