Economic entomology for the farmer Economic entomology for the farmer and the fruit grower, and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges; economicentomol00smit Year: 1906 Fig. 469. Modifications of the hind legs of different bees.—/I, Apis: a, wax cutter and outer view of leg; b, inner aspect of wax cutter and leg ; c, compound hairs ; d, anterior leg, showing antenna! scraper. £, Melipona : /, peculiar group of spines at apex of tibia; g, inner aspect of wax cutters and first joint of tarsus. C, Bomdus : h, wax cutter; i, inner view of same and first joint of tarsus ; all
Economic entomology for the farmer Economic entomology for the farmer and the fruit grower, and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges; economicentomol00smit Year: 1906 Fig. 469. Modifications of the hind legs of different bees.—/I, Apis: a, wax cutter and outer view of leg; b, inner aspect of wax cutter and leg ; c, compound hairs ; d, anterior leg, showing antenna! scraper. £, Melipona : /, peculiar group of spines at apex of tibia; g, inner aspect of wax cutters and first joint of tarsus. C, Bomdus : h, wax cutter; i, inner view of same and first joint of tarsus ; all enlarged. insect is stored among it, ready for transportation to the nest. Pollen, however, forms only one portion of the food of the larva, and it must be mixed with honey to form ' bee bread' of a proper composition. This honey is also gathered from flowers, and the mouth parts are modified to this especial end. We have two series of bees dis- tinguished by the character of the mouth parts,—the short-tongued and the long-tongued,—both of which may be either solitary or social. The short-tongued bees have the lower lip modified into a bladder-like structure, more or less pointed at the tip, and set with regular rows of short hair or flattened processes, an ideal tongue for gathering up the liquid nectar and bringing it into the mouth. Many of these bees are diggers, and build their nests in the ground, usually forming a single vertical burrow from which lateral branches diverge into Abdomen of Megachile fitted for gathering pollen.
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