. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. mits, crawl upon a bee and thus are borne to the hive, where they feast on eggs, honey and pollen. These insects undergo what M. Faber styles hyper-metamorpho- sis, as the larva appears in four different forms instead of one. Two of these forms show in the figure. The Span- ish fly — Cantharides of the shops—is an allied insect. Some of our common blister beetles are very destructive to plants. Girard in his excellent work on bees, gives illustrations of all the forms of this insect. WASPS. I have never seen bees injured b
. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. mits, crawl upon a bee and thus are borne to the hive, where they feast on eggs, honey and pollen. These insects undergo what M. Faber styles hyper-metamorpho- sis, as the larva appears in four different forms instead of one. Two of these forms show in the figure. The Span- ish fly — Cantharides of the shops—is an allied insect. Some of our common blister beetles are very destructive to plants. Girard in his excellent work on bees, gives illustrations of all the forms of this insect. WASPS. I have never seen bees injured by wasps. In the South> as in Europe, we hear of such depredations. I have re- ceived wasps, sent by our southern brothers, which were caught destroying bees. The wasp sent me is the large, handsome Stizus speciosus, Drury. It is black, with its. 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 original Cook, Albert John, 1842-1916. Chicago, Ill. : George W. York & Co.
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