. Langstroth on the hive and honey-bee. Bees. Fig. 174. ASCLEPIAS TUBEEOSA. PLETJEISY BOOT. Fig. 175. ASCLEPIAS SYKIACA. South,. plant), Veronicas, Yellow Jessamine of the whose honej' is poisonous.— (Dr. J. P. H. Brown.) Asdepiadaceae: — The common Milk- weed (Fig. 175), or Silkweed, Asclepias cornuti, is much frequented by bees, but these visits are often fatal to them. All the grains of pollen of the Silkweed, in each anther, are collected in a com- pact mass, inclosed in a sack; these sacks are united in pairs {a. Tig. 176) by a kind of thread, terminated by a small, viscous gland. These t
. Langstroth on the hive and honey-bee. Bees. Fig. 174. ASCLEPIAS TUBEEOSA. PLETJEISY BOOT. Fig. 175. ASCLEPIAS SYKIACA. South,. plant), Veronicas, Yellow Jessamine of the whose honej' is poisonous.— (Dr. J. P. H. Brown.) Asdepiadaceae: — The common Milk- weed (Fig. 175), or Silkweed, Asclepias cornuti, is much frequented by bees, but these visits are often fatal to them. All the grains of pollen of the Silkweed, in each anther, are collected in a com- pact mass, inclosed in a sack; these sacks are united in pairs {a. Tig. 176) by a kind of thread, terminated by a small, viscous gland. These threads „ . ,, . ' ^ a, sacs of pollen m stick to the feet. (&. Fig. 176) and often pairs; 6, the same at- to the labial palpi (46) of the bees, who (From "A b c ot Bee- cannot easily get rid of them, and perish. " "''^' In some parts of Ohio and Western Illinois, a variety of the common kind, the Asclepias Sullivanlii, does not jiresent to bees these difficulties to the same degree. "We have seen bees gathering honey freely on four or five different varieties which grow in our neighborhood, and especially on the Tube- Fig. 176. POLLEN or 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 Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine), 1810-1895; Dadant, Charles, 1817-1902; Dadant, C. P. (Camille Pierre), 1851-1938. Hamilton, Ill. : Dadant
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