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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 538

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itaris liumeralis, for instance, is about as fol-lows : About the end of August the little beetlelays its eggs, a thousand or more, in the dustaround the entrance to the nest of one of the sol-itary bees, Anthophora. About the latter part ofSeptember these eggs hatch into lively, six-leggedlittle… … THE BEETLE ON THE EGG THAT FLOATS ON HONEYIN THE CELL. The earth is represented as removed, to show the interiorarrangement. bees, who should emerge about this time. Theyblindly fasten to any hairy object that comestheir way and great numbers of them are thus

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