Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects [Illustrated]

This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index

CONTENTS
The Subject in General,
The Solitary Groups,
The Solitary Bees,
The Cuckoo Bees,
The Fossors, or Diggers,
The Solitary Wasps,
The Social Groups,
The Ants,
The Social Wasps,
The Humble Bees,
The Bees With Bifid Tongues,
The Bees with Pointed Tongues,
Leaf-Cutting Bees,
Osmia and Its Habits,
A Colony of Anthophora,
Bees and Pollen-Collecting,
On Bees' Tongues, and how They suck Honey,
A Dreadful Parasite,
{viii} Amongst the Bees at Work,
Ants, their Guests, and their Lodgers,
How can an "Aculeate" be Recognized?,
Males and Females,
The Vagaries of Colour and Structure in the Sexes,
The Distribution, Rarity, or Abundance of Various Species,
On Bees' Wings,
On Breeding Aculeates, etc.,
On Colour,
The Development of Insects from the Egg,
On Structure,
Index