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Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects

Name: Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects
Author: Edward Saunders

Edward Saunders

Read by Larry Wilson, Steven Winiarski, Dafni Ma, Isabel Maddison, THBosc, Robert Schwartz, John, Jim Locke, Twinkle, Lisa Statler, Jael Baldwin and Amy Gramour · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Preface (2:19)
The Subject in General (6:00)
The Solitary Groups (3:32)
The Solitary Bees (7:04)
The Cuckoo Bees (6:22)
The Fossors or Diggers (7:19)
The Solitary Wasps (5:07)
The Social Groups (4:00)
The Ants (5:30)
The Social Wasps (5:26)
The Humble Bees (6:55)
The Bees With Bifid Tongues (4:48)
The Bees with Pointed Tongues (5:41)
Leaf-Cutting Bees (4:29)
Osmia and Its Habits (8:56)
A Colony of Anthophora (5:16)
Bees and Pollen-Collecting (8:10)
On Bees' Tongues and how They suck Honey (6:26)
A Dreadful Parasite (4:38)
Amongst the Bees at Work (8:02)
Ants their Guests and their Lodgers (4:56)
How can an "Aculeate" be Recognized? (4:20)
Males and Females (5:52)
The Vagaries of Colour and Structure in the Sexes (6:23)
The Distribution Rarity or Abundance of Various Species (5:37)
On Bees' Wings (3:30)
On Breeding Aculeates etc. (7:43)
On Colour (6:15)
The Development of Insects from the Egg (9:40)
On Structure (8:25)