 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1818 - 568 pages
...circumstances, she places over the margins of those that form the first tube, thus covering and strengtheningthe junctures. Repeating the same process, she gives a...extremity of the cell, to bend the leaves so as to forai a convex termination. Having thus finished a cell, her next business is to fill it to within... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1822 - 618 pages
...of which, as the most skilful workman would do in similar circumstances, she places over the margins of those that form the first tube, thus covering and...thus finished a cell, her next business is to fill it to within half a line of the orifice, with a rose-coloured conserve composed of honey and pollen, usually... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1846 - 642 pages
...of which, as the most skilful workman would do in similar circumstances, she places over the margins of those that form the first tube, thus covering and...leaves so as to form a convex termination. Having thus fmished a cell, her next business is to fill it to within half a line of the orifice with a rose-colored... | |
 | Bee culture - 1867 - 378 pages
...of which, as the most skilful workman would do in similar circumstances, she places over the margins of those that form the first tube, thus covering and...fifth coating to her nest, taking care, at the closed cud or narrow extremity of the cell, to bend the leaves so as to form a convex termination. Having... | |
 | A Journal of Horticulture, Rural and Domestic Economy, Botany and Natural History - 1861 - 532 pages
...of which, as the most skilful workman would do in similar circumstances, she places over the margins of those that form the first tube, thus covering and...the junctures. Repeating the same process, she gives u fourth and sometimes a fifth coating to her nest, taking care, at the closed end or narrow extremity... | |
 | John Cumming - Bees - 1864 - 278 pages
...covering and strengthening the junctions by the expedient which mechanics call a break-joint. Continuing the same process, she gives a fourth and sometimes...bend the leaves so as to form a convex termination. " After thus completing each cell, she proceeds to fill it to within the twentieth of an inch of the... | |
 | John Platts - Curiosities and wonders - 1876 - 986 pages
...similar circumstances, she places over the margins of those that form the first tube, thus coverin* and strengthening the junctures. Repeating the same...finished a cell, her next business is to fill it, to within half a line of the orifice, with a rose-coloured conserve, composed of honey and pollen,... | |
 | John Platts - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1882 - 558 pages
...of which, as the most skilful workman would do in similar circumstances, she places over the margins of those that form the first tube, thus covering and...extremity of the cell, to bend the leaves so as to foim a convex termination. Having thus finished a cell, hei next business is to fill it, to within... | |
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... over the other, is kept on the outside, and that which has been cut within. The little animal now forms a third coating of similar materials, the middle of which, as the most skilful workman would do in similar circumstances, she places over the margins... 