 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1818 - 568 pages
...differ also from A. Papaveris in excavating longer burrows, and filling them with several thimble-shaped cells composed of portions of leaves so curiously...are indebted for the most complete account of their pro* cedures to Reaumur. The mother bee first excavates a cylindrical hole eight or ten inches long,... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1822 - 618 pages
...differ also from A. Papaveris in excavating longer burrows, and filling them with several thimbleshaped cells composed of portions of leaves so curiously...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... | |
 | Henry David Inglis - Channel Islands - 1834 - 318 pages
...differ from apis papaveris, in excavating longer burrows, and filling them with several thimble^shaped cells, composed of portions of leaves so curiously...were ignorant in what school they have been taught 192 THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. to construct them, we should never credit their being the work of an insect.... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1846 - 642 pages
...Hist. N. from M. Papaveris in excavating longer burrows, and filling them with several thimble-shaped cells composed of portions of leaves so curiously...are indebted for the most complete account of their procedures to Reaumur. The mother bee first excavates a cylindrical hole eight or ten inches long,... | |
 | WILLIAM KIRBY, M.A. F.R.S. F.L.S. - 1858 - 676 pages
...also from M. Prrpaverit in excavating longer burrows, and rilling them with several thimble-shaped cells composed of portions of leaves so curiously...are indebted for the most complete account of their procedures to Reaumur. The mother-bee first excavates a cylindrical hole eight or ten inches long,... | |
 | Bee culture - 1867 - 378 pages
...differ also from M. Papaveris in excavating longer burrows, and filling them with several thimble-shaped cells composed of portions of leaves so curiously...are indebted for the most complete account of their procedures to Reaumur. The mother-bee first excavates a cylindrical hole eight or ten inches long,... | |
 | John Platts - Curiosities and wonders - 1876 - 986 pages
...differ also from A. Papaveris in excavating longer burrows, and filling them with several thimble-shaped cells, composed of portions of leaves so curiously...of an insect. Their entertaining history, so long ai:o as 1670, attracted the attention of our countrymen. Ray, Lister, Willoughby, and Sir Ed w. King... | |
 | John Platts - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1882 - 558 pages
...differ also from A. Papaverts in excavating longer burrows, and filling them with several thimble-shaped cells, composed of portions of leaves so curiously convoluted, that, if we were ignorant n what school they have been taught to construct them, we hould never credit their being the work of... | |
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Papaveris in excavating longer burrows, and filling them with several thimble-shaped cells composed of portions of leaves so curiously convoluted, that, if we were ignorant in what school they have been taught to construct them, we should never credit... 