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Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants

by Edward Saunders

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Description of the Coloured Plates
  3. 3The Subject in General
  4. 4The Solitary Groups
  5. 5The Solitary Bees
  6. 6The Cuckoo Bees
  7. 7The Fossors or Diggers
  8. 8The Solitary Wasps
  9. 9The Social Groups
  10. 10The Ants
  11. 11The Social Wasps
  12. 12The Humble Bees
  13. 13The Bees With Bifid Tongues
  14. 14The Bees With Pointed Tongues
  15. 15Leaf-Cutting Bees
  16. 16Osmia and Its Habits
  17. 17A Colony of Anthophora
  18. 18Bees and Pollen-Collecting
  19. 19On Bees’ Tongues, and How They Suck Honey
  20. 20A Dreadful Parasite
  21. 21Amongst the Bees at Work
  22. 22Ants, Their Guests and Their Lodgers
  23. 23How Can an “Aculeate” Be Recognized?
  24. 24Males and Females
  25. 25The Vagaries of Colour and Structure in the Sexes
  26. 26The Distribution, Rarity, or Abundance of Various Species
  27. 27On Bees’ Wings
  28. 28On Breeding Aculeates, etc.
  29. 29On Colour
  30. 30The Development of Insects From the Egg
  31. 31On Structure

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