. The humble-bee [microform] : its life-history and how to domesticate it with descriptions of all the British species of Bombus and Psithyrus. Bees; Apiculture; Abeilles; Abeilles; Bee culture; Bees. {' i 9 H 1S4 THE HUMBLE-BEE sometimes so few tliat it is to use a lens to sec tiicm. In (lark sjiecimcns the pale band separating; the black bands on the 2iul and 3r(l se^^nnents is faint and broken, and there are traces of black bands on the 4th and 5th seL^ments. Coat short ; hairs on the let;s short. Antenna; loni,^ ; len_L;th of llaLjellum 6 mm. Armature very like that of/A black w
. The humble-bee [microform] : its life-history and how to domesticate it with descriptions of all the British species of Bombus and Psithyrus. Bees; Apiculture; Abeilles; Abeilles; Bee culture; Bees. {' i 9 H 1S4 THE HUMBLE-BEE sometimes so few tliat it is to use a lens to sec tiicm. In (lark sjiecimcns the pale band separating; the black bands on the 2iul and 3r(l se^^nnents is faint and broken, and there are traces of black bands on the 4th and 5th seL^ments. Coat short ; hairs on the let;s short. Antenna; loni,^ ; len_L;th of llaLjellum 6 mm. Armature very like that of/A black with the exception of a pale yellou band on the front of the thorax, an indi^-tind one on the back of the thora\, \\hiti-,h frin.^es on the edyes of the 41)1 and 5th sej^ment-, and faint «hiii>l; frin^i'^ on the ed-es of the 2nd and 3rd segments. In most years, />'. latrcillcHns is abundant in the Deal and Dover district; it is also common in SiiHolk and in many localities in the south and east of England In the north of England it appears to be scarce, and I can find no evidence that it has been taken either in Scotland or ii^. Ireland. The queens, like those of lapidarius, appear late, and in the Dover district mav be seen searching; for nests at the end of May and early in June. The queen often rears a very large brood. Two nests that I examined in the stage just before the first workers emerged had a number of additional cocoons fastened to the rear of the main cluster. In one of these nests, shown in Eig. 27, the additional cocoons niuiibered nine, and those in the main cluster sixteen, making twenty-five in all, many more than the (]ueen could spread her body over. The main cluster was easily distinguished by the groove in its centre, and by the darker appearance. 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
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