L'histoire naturelle des insectes : composé de leur architecture, des transformations, des sens, de l'alimentation, des habitudes, de collecte, de conservation et d'arrangement . ntérieur dans un cluster, comme une curtainwhich est composé d'une série d'festoonsor entrelacées de guirlandes, qui se croisent dans tous les sens, l'ambition de maintenir sa position d'abeilles par layinghold du toit avec ses pattes avant, et le succeedingone en posant la main sur les pattes de la première. ^^ une personne, dit Réaumur, doit disposer d'beenborn dépourvu de curiosité à ne pas s'intéresser à l'enquête de ces merveilleux travaux. YetReaumur h

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Natural history of insects : comprising their architecture, transformations, senses, food, habits--collection, preservation and arrangement . nterior in an extended cluster, like a curtainwhich is composed of a series of intertwined festoonsor garlands, crossing each other in all directions, —the uppermost bee maintaining its position by layinghold of the roof with its fore-legs, and the succeedingone by laying hold of the hind legs of the first. ^^ A person, says Reaumur, must have beenborn devoid of curiosity not to take interest in theinvestigation of such wonderful proceedings. YetReaumur himself seems not to have understood thatthe bees suspended themselves in this manner tosecrete wax, but merely, as he imagined, to recruitthemselves by rest for renewing their labours. Thebees composing the festooned curtain are individu-ally motionless; but this curtain is, notwithstanding, * Spectacle de la Nature, torn. i.VOL. IV. 10* 114 INSECT ARCHITECTURE. kept moving by the proceedings in the interior; forthe nurse-bees never form any portion of it, andcontinue their activity—a distinction with whichReaumur was unacquainted.. Curtain of Wnx-zcorkcrs secreting TVax. Although there are many thousand labourers in aJaive, they do not commence foundations for combs HIVE-BEES. 115 in several places at once, but wait till an individualbee has selected a site, and laid the foundation of acomb, which serves as a directing mark for all thatare to follow. Were we not expressly told by soaccurate an observer as Huber, we might hesitate tobelieve that bees, though united in what appears tobe a harmonious monarchy, are strangers to sub-ordination, and subject to no discipline. Hence itis, that though many bees v/ork on the same comb, they do not appear to be guided by any simultaneousimpulse. The stimulus which moves them is suc-cessive. An individual bee commences each opera-tion, and several others successively apply themselvesto accomplish the same purpose. Each bee appears, ther

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