. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Oct. 28, 1920. THE BErriSH BEE JOUBNAL. 527 I am always glad if the ibees can store suiBcient or nearly so in the brood nest foi- winter. I have taken as much as 70 lbs. frojn good hives in a favourable season, bu t am always satisfied with an average of about 30 lbs. per hive. This year I had but very little, and have had to feed up pretty extensively. 1 am hoping for a good season next year.—Thos. Harper, Uttoxeter. Poppy and Other Bees. [10327] The " Popjn/ hee" belongs to the leaf cxitters, genus Megachile, Latreille. "
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Oct. 28, 1920. THE BErriSH BEE JOUBNAL. 527 I am always glad if the ibees can store suiBcient or nearly so in the brood nest foi- winter. I have taken as much as 70 lbs. frojn good hives in a favourable season, bu t am always satisfied with an average of about 30 lbs. per hive. This year I had but very little, and have had to feed up pretty extensively. 1 am hoping for a good season next year.—Thos. Harper, Uttoxeter. Poppy and Other Bees. [10327] The " Popjn/ hee" belongs to the leaf cxitters, genus Megachile, Latreille. " Curding bee " to the genus Bombus, those who plait filaments of moss, etc., to form their nests. Orange-tailed Bee.—The large black species, with orange tail, is Bombus lapidarius, derbarnellus, or Pesithyrus rupestris; the last-named is parasitic upon the former. A carnivorous bee that bores with its " teeth " is not known to modern scientists.—M. E. Bott. [10328] In reply to " W.'s " inquiries (p. 485) re popjiy bee, carding bee, and orange-tailed bee, I presume the second- named is Bomhiis agrarium, the carder bee, so named because of the way in which it weaves or cards the moss of whicli its nest is lined. As the population grows, the nest is enlarged, the bees Forming a eh;iin from the entrance to the growing moss, passing the pellets backward to he mixed with wax, or rather, pseudo wax, to withstand the weather. The orange- tailed bee is possibly Apaihus riii?re>itis; as its name indicates, it is without affec- tion for its progeny, it never rears its own young, but deposits its eggs in the nest of Bombus lajndarius, of which it is a parasite. Almost immediately after im- pregnation the young queens retire into the nest of B. lapidarius to hibernate. I'he male and female are of similar colour, the drone being the brighter of the two. The queen is much larger, and the three last segments of both are orange- coloured. The poppy bee I have n
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