 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1818 - 568 pages
...Willughby, and Sir Edward King; but we are indebted for the most complete account of their pro* cedures to Reaumur. The mother bee first excavates a cylindrical...ten inches long, in a horizontal direction, either * Return. M. 139-148. b Latr. Hist. Ifat. det Pourmis,Wl . " in the ground or in the trunk of a rotten... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1822 - 618 pages
...Willughby, and Sir Edward King; but we are indebted for the im*t complete account of their procedures to Reaumur. 'The mother bee first excavates a cylindrical...ten inches long, in a horizontal direction, either ' Rcaum. vi. 139-148. b Latr. Hist. A'at. dct Fourmis, 297. in the ground or in the trunk of a rotten... | |
 | Henry David Inglis - Channel Islands - 1834 - 318 pages
...convoluted, that if we were ignorant in what school they have been taught 192 THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. to construct them, we should never credit their being...excavated in the ground ; indeed, there are neither trees, nor large shrubs in the island.) This cavity she fills with six or seven cells, wholly composed... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1846 - 642 pages
...Willughby, and Sir Edward King ; but we are indebted for the most complete account of their procedures to Reaumur. The mother bee first excavates a cylindrical...direction, either in the ground or in the trunk of a rotten willow-tree, or occasionally in other decaying wood. This cavity she fills with six or seven cells... | |
 | WILLIAM KIRBY, M.A. F.R.S. F.L.S. - 1858 - 676 pages
...; but we are indebted for the most complete account of their procedures to Reaumur. The mother-bee first excavates a cylindrical hole eight or ten inches...direction, either in the ground or in the trunk of a rotten willow-tree, or occasionally in other decaying wood. This cavity she fills with six or seven cells... | |
 | Bee culture - 1867 - 378 pages
...King; but we are indebted for the most complete account of their procedures to Reaumur. The mother-bee first excavates a cylindrical hole eight or ten inches...direction, either in the ground or in the trunk of a rotten willow-tree, or occasionally in other decaying wood. This cavity she fills with six or seven cells... | |
 | A Journal of Horticulture, Rural and Domestic Economy, Botany and Natural History - 1861 - 532 pages
...described the proceeding at follows:— "The mother bee first excavates a cylindrical hole 8 inches or 10 inches long, in a horizontal direction, either in...willow tree, or occasionally in other decaying wood. Latreille says the nest is also made in the earth. This cavity she fills with six or seven cells wholly... | |
 | John Platts - Curiosities and wonders - 1876 - 986 pages
...Ray, Lister, Willoughby, and Sir Ed w. King ; but we are indebted for the most complete account of the procedure, to Reaumur The mother bee first excavates...in a horizontal direction, either in the ground or ii the trunk of a rotten willow-tree, or occasionally in other decaying wood. This cavity she fills... | |
 | John Platts - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1882 - 558 pages
...Ray, Lister, Willoughby, and Sir Ed w. King ; but we are indebted for the most complete account of the procedure, to Reaumur The mother bee first excavates...long, in a horizontal direction, either in the ground of Ji the trunk of a rotten willow-tree, of occasionally in other decaying wood. This cavity she fills... | |
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King; but we are indebted for the most complete account of their procedure* to Reaumur. The mother bee first excavates a cylindrical hole eight or ten. inches long, in a horizontal direction, either in the ground or in the trunk of a rotten willow-tree,... 