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I have at hand some long bits of reed in the hollow of which an Osmia, the Three-horned Osmia, has stacked her cells, bounded by earthen partitions. "Bramble-bees and Others": chapters 2 to 5. When the reed is split lengthwise, the cells come into view, together with their provisions, the egg lying on the paste, or even the budding larva.
Conversely, is the mellivorous larva killed by animal food? Reservations are needful here, as in the previous tests. We should be courting a flat refusal if we offered a pinch of Locusts to the larvae of the Anthophora or the Osmia, for instance. "Bramble-bees and Others": passim. There would be no use whatever in trying.
Rationally speaking, my dear sir, nothing could be more accurate than your inferences; and yet we must forgo the theory of the strange inversion which you suggest. None of the Bramble-bees with whom I have experimented behaves after that fashion.
I will describe later how I managed to make a whole swarm of these Osmiae build their nests on the table in my study, in glass tubes that enabled me to see the inmost secrets of the work of the Bee. "Bramble-bees and Others", by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos: chapters 1 to 7.
This last Anthidium is the victim also of the Unarmed Zonitis. Thus we have two closely-related exploiters for the same victim. Bramble-bees and Others: chaps. i., iii. and x. Bramble-bees and Others: passim. During the last fortnight of July, I witness the emergence of the Burnt Zonitis from the pseudochrysalis. The latter is cylindrical, slightly curved and rounded at both ends.
In many cases the result resembles the first obtained: the abundance of provisions varies from one cell to another. "Bramble-bees and Others": passim; and, in particular, chapters 3 to 5. One of these heaps may be three or four times the size of some other in the same group of cells.
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