. The insect book [microform] : a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies. Insectes; Insects. The solitary bees of the family Anthophoridce art -n general thickly clothed with hair, and many of them burrow inio the earth, forming tunnels in which they form earthern ceils, storing them with a supply of pollen and honey upon which the egg is laid and the cell is then closed. Much good work can be done in the way of accurate observation upon t
. The insect book [microform] : a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies. Insectes; Insects. The solitary bees of the family Anthophoridce art -n general thickly clothed with hair, and many of them burrow inio the earth, forming tunnels in which they form earthern ceils, storing them with a supply of pollen and honey upon which the egg is laid and the cell is then closed. Much good work can be done in the way of accurate observation upon the members of this group ; the length of the larval life, duration of the egg stage, and other points have not been accurately fol- lowed out, although some of the European species are fairly well known. Certain species bore into wood instead of en- tering the earth, or they oc- cupy old burrows of some carpenter hee. There are cer- tain curious parasites of these bees, and the life of one of them has been studied by the English observer Newport. The cuckoo bees of the family Nomadidas without exception live parasitically in the nest of other bees, and have undoubtedly originated from other bees through different lines of descentâprobably from those of the group just men- tioned. As their parasitic habits would prepare us to learn, their legs are without the scopa for the car- riage of pollen, and their life is practically that of the cuckoo, the female laying her eggs in cells al- ready prepared by some more in- dustrious and conscientious bee, and her larvs living at the ex- pense of the of the cell- v:. ^ ââ. â ,,, â to i^ig- 4-âV'Uffn nf the mi:lon maKer. honey btc. (From /union.) f'g- 3-âQoeen cells and worker brood of honey bees. (From Benton.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the origina
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