. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 14, 1911.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 493 dorsata from India, caught after it had collected a little pollen. The fact that the pollen, always begins to collect at the apical end of the corbiculii is now satisfactorily explained. To test the working of the auricle and its socket, I relaxed a queen of Bomb us lapidarious, and after filling the socket. with some pollen that I dug out of a comb from one of my hives, I worked the joint and began loading the corbicula just as the bee does it. I was struciv with the freedom of action of the jo
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 14, 1911.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 493 dorsata from India, caught after it had collected a little pollen. The fact that the pollen, always begins to collect at the apical end of the corbiculii is now satisfactorily explained. To test the working of the auricle and its socket, I relaxed a queen of Bomb us lapidarious, and after filling the socket. with some pollen that I dug out of a comb from one of my hives, I worked the joint and began loading the corbicula just as the bee does it. I was struciv with the freedom of action of the joint and noticed that the auricle could be placed in its socket in various positions, so that it can not only compress pollen there, but it can scrape M^ /Metatarsus. 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 London
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