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Updated: May 26, 2025
I have caught the first, the stronger of the two, digging galleries in a large block of oak that served as an arch for a stable-door; I have always found the second, who is more widely distributed, settling in dead wood mulberry, cherry, almond, poplar that was still standing. Her work is exactly the same as the Xylocopa's, on a smaller scale.
Heaping up provisions and erecting partitions are an invariable feature of the Xylocopa's programme; no circumstance can release the mother from the duty of providing for the future of her family, in the matter both of ready-prepared food and of separate compartments for the rearing of each larva.
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