The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . ated kind of honey, which exudes from between thesegments of the abdomen ; several females live on good terms together in the same nest; the females are far lessproductive than the queen of the hive. [The species are very numerous. Types, Apis muscorttm, Linn., the Moss-carder Humble Bee]; Apis lapidaria [the Lapidary Humble Bee, which builds amongst stones, but also uses moss];and A. tcrrestris, [which builds in the ground without using moss. The females of
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . ated kind of honey, which exudes from between thesegments of the abdomen ; several females live on good terms together in the same nest; the females are far lessproductive than the queen of the hive. [The species are very numerous. Types, Apis muscorttm, Linn., the Moss-carder Humble Bee]; Apis lapidaria [the Lapidary Humble Bee, which builds amongst stones, but also uses moss];and A. tcrrestris, [which builds in the ground without using moss. The females of some Humble Bees are desti-tute of apparatus for carrying pollen paste on the hind legs, and are consequently considered as parasites. Theyform the genus Psithyrus, St. Farg., changed by Newman to Apat/ius.] The other Social Bees have no spurs at the extremity of the posterior tibiae. Apis, Linn.,—The workers of which have the basal joint of the hind tarsi oblong, and furnished on the inside with transverserows of short mellifica, Linn., or common Hive Bee, is much smaller and more oblong than the Humble Bee; the body.
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