In filling up her nest she put her head down into it and bit away the loose earth from the sides, letting it fall to the bottom of the burrow, and then, after a quantity had accumulated, jammed it down with her head. Earth was then brought from the outside... Animal Behaviour - Page 128by Conwy Lloyd Morgan - 1900 - 344 pagesFull view - About this book
| Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey - Geology - 1898 - 314 pages
...ends, so busy and contented in her labor of love, and so pretty in her pride over her completed work. In filling up her nest she put her head down into...pressed in, and then more was bitten from the sides. When, ait last, the filling was level with the ground, she I 1o z D < brought a quantity of fine grains... | |
| Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey - 1898 - 500 pages
...ends, so busy and contented in her labor of love, and so pretty in her pride over her completed work. In filling up her nest she put her head down into...and pressed in, and then more was bitten from the rides. When, at last, the filling was level with the ground, she 0 z o tul § brought a quantity of... | |
| George Williams Peckham, Elizabeth Gifford Peckham - Wasps - 1898 - 310 pages
...ends, so busy and contented in her labor of love, and so pretty in her pride over her completed work. In filling up her nest she put her head down into...and pressed in, and then more was bitten from the rides. When, at last, the filling was level with the ground, she 0 z 0 H UJ g O 5 X brought a quantity... | |
| Conwy Lloyd Morgan - Animal behavior - 1900 - 448 pages
...here," writes Dr. Peckham,* " must be told the story of one little wasp whose individuality stands out in our minds more distinctly than that of any of the...pressed in, and then more was bitten from the sides. When, at last, the filling was level with the ground, she brought a quantity of fine grains of dirt... | |
| Conwy Lloyd Morgan - Animal behavior - 1900 - 396 pages
...here," writes Dr. Peckham,* " must be told the story of one little wasp whose individuality stands out in our minds more distinctly than that of any of the...pressed in, and then more was bitten from the sides. When, at last, the filling was level with the ground, she brought a quantity of fine grains of dirt... | |
| Margaret Warner Morley - Wasps - 1900 - 330 pages
...ends, so busy and contented in her labour of love, and so pretty in her pride over her completed work. In filling up her nest she put her head down into...pressed in, and then more was bitten from the sides. When, at last, the filling was level with the ground. she brought a quantity of fine grains of dirt... | |
| Science - 1908 - 588 pages
...fascinating paper8 on the habits of solitary wasps, the Peckhams tell of one who in filling up her nest " put her head down into it and bit away the loose earth...quantity had accumulated, jammed it down with her head. She then brought earth from the outside and passed it in, afterwards biting more from the sides. When,... | |
| Charles Fletcher Lummis - California - 1905 - 476 pages
...ends, so busy and contented in her labor of love and so pretty in her pride over the completed work. In filling up her nest she put her head down into...pressed in, and then more was bitten from the sides. When, at last, the filling was level with the ground, she brought a quantity of fine grains of dirt... | |
| George Williams Peckham, Elizabeth Gifford Peckham - Wasps - 1905 - 344 pages
...ends, so busy and contented in her labor of love, and so pretty in her pride over the completed work. In filling up her nest she put her head down into...pressed in, and then more was bitten from the sides. When, at last, the filling was level with the ground, she brought a quantity of fine grains of dirt... | |
| George Williams Peckham, Elizabeth Gifford Peckham - Wasps - 1905 - 344 pages
...ends, so busy and contented in her labor of love, and so pretty in her pride over the completed work. In filling up her nest she put her head down into...outside and pressed in, and then more was bitten from fhe sides. When, at last, the filling was level with the ground, she brought a quantity of fine grains... | |
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