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 general public. It has been my aim to write mainly on those Hymenoptera which have especially interested and delighted me, in the hope that I might thus best interest others and introduce them to one of the most fascinating branches of Natural History. It is for this reason that I have confined my remarks to British species of Hymenoptera.

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