Bembex

Bembex mâchonner la tête et le thorax des victimes. '

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Cerceris -, Bembex - or Philanthus-wasps will never tell us that this grub has taken precedence of that in point of time nor enable us to decide whether one cocoon in a colony belongs to the same family as another.

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Bembex, that grub which wove the silk and next encrusted the outer casing with sand, it has disappeared entirely, all but the tattered remnants of its skin.

The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

But in what, if you please, does Parnopes carnea resemble the Bembex into whose home she penetrates in her presence?

The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

She must surely be obliged to follow the method of the Bembex, whose larva receives, at intervals, the necessary nourishment; the amount increasing as the larva grows.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

The stony caskets of the Bembex - and Stizus-wasps are endowed, notwithstanding their hardness, with similar means of exchange between the vitiated and the pure atmosphere.

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

The same mode of work is employed by the Bembex -, Stizus-and

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

It was perhaps even more tedious than when I was keeping an eye upon the Bembex.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Certain hunting Hymenoptera, the Bembex-wasps, for instance, are accustomed to furnish the provisions in instalments: so that the grub may have fresh though dead game, they fill the platter each day.

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

My expectations are thus confirmed; as with Bembex, slayer of Diptera, so Philanthus, killer of bees, lays her egg upon the first body stored, and completes, at intervals, the provisioning of the cells.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869