And these, noisily buzzing with a sudden flight?
They are the Anthophorae (a species of Wild Bees .-- Translator's Note.), who live in the old walls and the sunny banks of the neighbourhood.
Now come the Osmiae.

One stacks her cells in the spiral staircase of an empty snail-shell; another, attacking the pith of a dry bit of bramble, obtains for her grubs a cylindrical lodging and divides it into floors by means of partition-walls; a third employs the natural channel of a cut reed; a fourth is a rent-free tenant of the vacant galleries of some Mason-bee.

Here are the Macrocerae and the Eucerae, whose males are proudly horned; the Dasypodae, who carry an ample brush of bristles on their hind-legs for a reaping implement; the Andrenae, so manyfold in species; the slender-bellied Halicti.

(Osmiae, Macrocerae, Eucerae, Dasypodae, Andrenae, and Halicti are all different species of Wild Bees .-- Translator's Note.) I omit a host of others.

If I tried to continue this record of the guests of my thistles, it would muster almost the whole of the honey-yielding tribe.