Excerpt from Catalogue of British Fossorial Hymenoptera, Formicid� and Vespid� In the Collection of the British Museum The economy of this tribe is greatly varied: some are excava tors, which tunnel and burrow in the ground, while others do so in decaying trees or timber; a considerable number construct nests suspended in trees. All the societies consist of males, fe males, and workers; the latter are by some considered to be abortive females. The males are always winged, the females temporarily so. About the ...
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Excerpt from Catalogue of British Fossorial Hymenoptera, Formicid� and Vespid� In the Collection of the British Museum The economy of this tribe is greatly varied: some are excava tors, which tunnel and burrow in the ground, while others do so in decaying trees or timber; a considerable number construct nests suspended in trees. All the societies consist of males, fe males, and workers; the latter are by some considered to be abortive females. The males are always winged, the females temporarily so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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