[72] “Injury of the young.”
[73] There are two kinds of hive-moth—the Phalæna tinea mellanella of Linnæus, and the Phalæna tortrix cereana. It deposits its larva in holes which it makes in the wax.
[74] In consequence of closing the stigmata, and so impeding their respiration. The same result, no doubt, is produced by the honey when smeared over their bodies.
[75] B. xxi. c. 42.
[76] Cuvier says that a hive has been known to last more than thirty years: but it is doubtful if bees ever live so long as ten, or, except the queen, little more than one.
[77] Though Virgil tells the same story, in B. iv. of the Georgics, in relation to the shepherd Aristæus, all this is entirely fabulous.
[78] Georg. B. iv. l. 284, et seq.
[79] Under roofs, and sometimes in the ground: hornets build in the hollows of trees.
[80] Called “Sphæx” by Linnæus.
[81] The true version is, that after killing the insect they bury it with their eggs as food for their future young.