The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . ^ ii ATllBt rCMAUES5no*mO Z niTONVtCKEIION. MATURE fEI/ALt«»-»*L VIE/ nectar is much prized by the bees, which swarm upon the leaves. If such nectar is pleasant to thetaste, as some aver, I should have no fear of thebees collecting it. From the middle to the last of June, the eggs be-gin to hatch, though hatchi
The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . ^ ii ATllBt rCMAUES5no*mO Z niTONVtCKEIION. MATURE fEI/ALt«»-»*L VIE/ nectar is much prized by the bees, which swarm upon the leaves. If such nectar is pleasant to thetaste, as some aver, I should have no fear of thebees collecting it. From the middle to the last of June, the eggs be-gin to hatch, though hatching is not completed forsome weeks after it begins, so we may expect younglice to hatch out from late in June till August. The young lice are yellow, half as broad as long,tapering slightly toward the posterior. The sevenabdominal segments appear very distinctly. Thelegs and antenna are seen from the other side. Asin the young of all such bark lice, the beak, or suck-ing-tube, is long and thi-ead-like, and is bent underthe body till the young louse is ready to settle downto earnest work as a sapper. Two hair-like append-ages, or setae, terminate the body, which soon dis-appear. The young, newly born louse, wanders two orthree days, then inserts its beak into the leaveswhere it first locates. It prefers the middle unders
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