Chapters (14)
- THE MASON-BEES
- Translated By Alexander Teixeira De Mattos
- TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.
- CHAPTER 1. THE MASON-BEES.
- CHAPTER 2. EXPERIMENTS.
- CHAPTER 3. EXCHANGING THE NESTS.
- CHAPTER 4. MORE ENQUIRIES INTO MASON-BEES.
- CHAPTER 5. THE STORY OF MY CATS.
- CHAPTER 6. THE RED ANTS.
- CHAPTER 7. SOME REFLECTIONS UPON INSECT PSYCHOLOGY.
- CHAPTER 8. PARASITES.
- CHAPTER 9. THE THEORY OF PARASITISM.
- CHAPTER 10. THE TRIBULATIONS OF THE MASON-BEE.
- CHAPTER 11. THE LEUCOPSES.
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