Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects - Edward Saunders

EDWARD SAUNDERS.

St. Ann's, Woking.

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The Subject in General,	[1]
The Solitary Groups,	[6]
The Solitary Bees,	[9]
The Cuckoo Bees,	[14]
The Fossors, or Diggers,	[18]
The Solitary Wasps,	[24]
The Social Groups,	[28]
The Ants,	[31]
The Social Wasps,	[35]
The Humble Bees,	[39]
The Bees With Bifid Tongues,	[44]
The Bees with Pointed Tongues,	[48]
Leaf-Cutting Bees,	[52]
Osmia and Its Habits,	[55]
A Colony of Anthophora,	[61]
Bees and Pollen-Collecting,	[65]
On Bees' Tongues, and how They suck Honey,	[72]
A Dreadful Parasite,	[77]
Amongst the Bees at Work,	[81]
Ants, their Guests, and their Lodgers,	[88]
How can an "Aculeate" be Recognized?,	[92]
Males and Females,	[95]
The Vagaries of Colour and Structure in the Sexes,	[100]
The Distribution, Rarity, or Abundance of Various Species,	[105]
On Bees' Wings,	[110]
On Breeding Aculeates, etc.,	[113]
On Colour,	[119]
The Development of Insects from the Egg,	[124]
On Structure,	[132]
Index,	[141]

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Fig. 1. Bombus, larva and nymph: after Packard	[11]
,, 2. Ammophila	[22]
,, 3-4. Spines on the tarsi of female Ammophila	[23]
,, 5. Tubular entrance to hole of wasp	[25]
,, 6. Basal segments of ants	[33]
,, 7. Rose-leaf partially eaten by bees	[52]
,, 8. Tufted hairs of hind leg of Andrena	[67]
,, 9. Corbicula of humble bee	[67]
,, 10-12. Cleaning apparatus of bees	[69]
,, 13-18. Hairs of bees, magnified	[71]
,, 19. Tongues of bees, magnified	[73]
,, 20. Diagram of tongue of bee	[75]
,, 21. Stylops	[77]
,, 22. Stylops larva in abdominal cavity of bee	[78]
,, 23. Antennæ of "Keyhole" wasps	[101]
,, 24. Legs of male "Keyhole" wasps	[101]
,, 25. Tibia of male Crabro cribrarius	[103]
,, 26. Antennæ of male Crabro cribrarius	[103]
,, 27. Head of male and female Crabro clypeatus	[103]
,, 28. Parts of the insect	[133]