. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. 2'he Bee L,ouse. 425 where it belongs, and the Hemiptera, which contains the bugs and most of the lice. It assumes the semi-pupa state almost as soon as hatched, and, strangest of all, is, consid- ering the size of the bee on which it lives and from which it sucks its nourishment, enormously large. Two or three, and sometimes as many as ten, are found on a single bee. When we consider their great size, we cannot wonder that they soon devitalize the bees. These have done little damage except in the south of Continental Euro
. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. 2'he Bee L,ouse. 425 where it belongs, and the Hemiptera, which contains the bugs and most of the lice. It assumes the semi-pupa state almost as soon as hatched, and, strangest of all, is, consid- ering the size of the bee on which it lives and from which it sucks its nourishment, enormously large. Two or three, and sometimes as many as ten, are found on a single bee. When we consider their great size, we cannot wonder that they soon devitalize the bees. These have done little damage except in the south of Continental Europe, Cyprus and other parts of the Orient. The reason that they have not been naturalized in other parts of Europe and in America may be owing to climate, Fig. 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 Cook, Albert John, 1842-1916. Chicago, Ill. : George W. York & Co.
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