Anthidium

Fabricius did not commit himself with his expression Anthidium, which alludes to the love of flowers, but neither did he mention anything characteristic: as all Bees have the same passion in a very high degree,

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

The last whorl left vacant by the Anthidium is a magnificent lodging which nothing prevents the mason from occupying.

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Judging from her appearance, the transformists tell us that she was an Anthidium, that is to say, she used to gather the soft cotton-wool from the dry stalks of the lanate plants and fashion it into wallets, in which to heap up the pollen-dust which she gleaned from the flowers by means of

The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

We have here, recognized as of excellent standard by all the expert classifiers, so fastidious in the arrangement of their lists, a generic group, called Anthidium, containing two guilds of workers entirely dissimilar in character: the cotton-fullers and the resin-kneaders.

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

_Megachile sericans_, made with little round disks of the leaves of the common acacia; in the third place, from the cells which _Anthidium bellicosum_ [11] builds with partitions of resin in the shell of a dead

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Cotton-bee (_see also Anthidium scapulare_), 180, 270

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

_Anthidium scapulare_, who, like the Three-toothed Osmia, makes her nests in the brambles; in the second place, from the wallets of

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Anthidium (_see also_ the varieties below), 180, 236, 280

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

This last Anthidium is the victim also of the Unarmed Zonitis.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

The smallest insect village has become familiar to me: I know each fruit-branch where the Praying Mantis [4] perches; each bush where the pale Italian Cricket [5] strums amid the calmness of the summer nights; each downy plant scraped by the Anthidium, that maker of cotton bags; each cluster of lilac worked by the Megachile, the Leaf-cutter.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869