Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 139
he cells,knows nothing of what has happened, unless per-chance she remembers her own larvahood. Herexperience is a novel one ; her first-born is thelast one of the brood that she beholds. You see,patience is taught to these creatures, as an earlylesson ; for, of course, the egg first laid is the… … THE TUNNEL HOME OF THE CERATINA DUPLA, ONE OF THE GROlP OFCARPENTER BEES. imagine that this idle waiting is rather hard workfor a little creature with brand-new wings whichit is longing to spread in the sunshine. The next lesson that our Ceratina must learn isindustry. For when the youngest of the…
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