stone-worker

Updated: June 12, 2025

Hence the number of appellations the least of whose faults is that they are unpleasant to the ear, certain of them, indeed, being gross misnomers. Have we not, for instance, seen the name of Lithurgus, or stone-worker, given to a Bee who works in wood and nothing but wood?

Jean-Henri Fabre - Bramble-Bees and Others