id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 45496 Rennie, James Insect Architecture .txt text/plain 136807 5769 69 holes in the earth, and form them into cells; others build nests of social species of bees and wasps; but little is generally known of the [Illustration: Nests, &c., of Mason-Wasps.--About half the natural size. the nest of a mason-bee, formed in the perpendicular line of cement [Illustration: Exterior Wall of Mason-Bee's Nest.] parent bee, _after_ having constructed her cells, laid an egg in each, [Illustration: Rose-leaf cutter Bees, and Nest lined with rose-leaves.] it forms its nest underground like the common wasp, in an excavated ARCHITECTURE OF THE HIVE-BEE CONTINUED--FORM OF THE CELLS. to the interior, I observed the trees more loaded with bees' nests than [Illustration: Nest of eggs of Saw-fly, in rose-tree.] insects, whose nests are not only remarkable in their form, but are this ingenious little insect begins to form its cell, it selects a The insect which forms this nest is black in colour and has very thick ./cache/45496.txt ./txt/45496.txt