Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals, Classed According to Their Principle of Construction |
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... wasp , the ant , the squirrel , & c . , might with equal propriety find a place in several of these classes , and I have therefore placed them in that class of which some pecu- liarity in nest - making renders them fit illustrators . I ...
... wasp , the ant , the squirrel , & c . , might with equal propriety find a place in several of these classes , and I have therefore placed them in that class of which some pecu- liarity in nest - making renders them fit illustrators . I ...
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... WASP - Its food and Habitation - Materials and Architecture of the Nest - Dis- position , Form , and Number of the Cells - Biography of a Queen Wasp , and History of her Nest - Other British Wasps and their Homes - The MONEDULA and its ...
... WASP - Its food and Habitation - Materials and Architecture of the Nest - Dis- position , Form , and Number of the Cells - Biography of a Queen Wasp , and History of her Nest - Other British Wasps and their Homes - The MONEDULA and its ...
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... WASP - BEETLE , its shape , colours , and tunnelling powers - The MUSK BEETLE - Its beauty and fragrance - Difficulty of detecting the Musk - Beetle - Its Burrows and their in- mates - The RHAGIUM and its Cocoon - The HARLEQUIN BEETLE ...
... WASP - BEETLE , its shape , colours , and tunnelling powers - The MUSK BEETLE - Its beauty and fragrance - Difficulty of detecting the Musk - Beetle - Its Burrows and their in- mates - The RHAGIUM and its Cocoon - The HARLEQUIN BEETLE ...
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... WASP as a Pensile insect - Gigantic nest - Union of three colonies - Character of the Wasp The NORWEGIAN WASP - Structure and locality of its nest - Classi- fication of the Wasps - The CAMPANULAR WASP and the NORTHERN Wasp— The ...
... WASP as a Pensile insect - Gigantic nest - Union of three colonies - Character of the Wasp The NORWEGIAN WASP - Structure and locality of its nest - Classi- fication of the Wasps - The CAMPANULAR WASP and the NORTHERN Wasp— The ...
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... WASP - Mr . Goss's account of its habits- -The MELIPONA of America - Mr . Stone's Wasp nests and their history- Difference of material - The FORAGING ANTS of South America and their various species - Nests and habits of the Foraging ...
... WASP - Mr . Goss's account of its habits- -The MELIPONA of America - Mr . Stone's Wasp nests and their history- Difference of material - The FORAGING ANTS of South America and their various species - Nests and habits of the Foraging ...
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