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Originally published in 1904, this book continues to be a helpful and interesting guide to some common British animals.

Bees and Wasps was first published in 1913 and contains an engaging guide to British species of Hymenoptera.

First published in 1913, Oswald H. Latter's "Bees and Wasps" is a fantastic guide to the common varieties of bees and wasps, providing detailed descriptions of their habit, habitat, natural history, anatomy, and much more. This comprehensive handbook contains a wealth of timeless information and is not to be missed by those with an interest in the bee keeping and entomology. Contents include: "Introduction", "Fossores or Digger-Wasps: Pompilid...

Excerpt from The Natural History of Some Common AnimalsIn addition to those to whom acknowledgments of kind assistance are made in the text, I must express my thanks to Mr M. D. Hill, of Eton College, for reading the proofs and for numerous helpful suggestions, to my former pupil Mr Edgar Schuster, of New College, Oxford, for valuable help in consulting the literature of the subject, and to Mr A. E. Shipley, of Christ's College, Cam bridge, fo...

Excerpt from Bees and WaspsThe terms bee and wasp probably do not, except to an entomologist, denote more than a very small assemblage of insects. The honey-bee and perhaps one or two species of bumble-bees on the one hand, and the yellow and black banded insects that cause such consternation at the breakfast table on the other, represent for most of us the sum total of personal acquaintance in this class of animals. It is therefore necessary ...

Excerpt from The Natural History of Some Common Animals In addition to those to whom acknowledgments of kind assistance are made in the text, I must express my thanks to Mr M. D. Hill, of Eton College, for reading the proofs and for numerous helpful suggestions, to my former pupil Mr Edgar Schuster, Of New College, Oxford, for valuable help in consulting the literature of the subject, and to Mr A. E. Shipley, of Christ's College, Cam bridge, ...

Excerpt from Bees and Wasps This little book makes no claim to be an exhaustive treatment of a very large subject. It is merely a sketch in which I have filled in details of those few insects which happen to come under my immediate notice, have touched lightly on others in mere outline, and have omitted entirely many extensive groups which are visible enough to those who look for them, but which for various reasons are not familiar to the gen...