. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 266 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL August queen bumblebees, the only caste of bumblebees then on the wing, for the males and workers do not appear un- til later; the fiy honeysuckle (Loni- cera ciliata), also pollinated in May by female bumblebees, which in their haste to get the nectar often cut the buds into shreds; the Tartarian honeysuckle (Lonicera Tatarica) of the garden; the bog fly honeysuckle (Lonicera coerulea) ; the bush honey- suckle (Diervilla trifida), the yellow flowers of which turn red in fading; the horse chestnut; the foxglove, and the Gladio
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 266 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL August queen bumblebees, the only caste of bumblebees then on the wing, for the males and workers do not appear un- til later; the fiy honeysuckle (Loni- cera ciliata), also pollinated in May by female bumblebees, which in their haste to get the nectar often cut the buds into shreds; the Tartarian honeysuckle (Lonicera Tatarica) of the garden; the bog fly honeysuckle (Lonicera coerulea) ; the bush honey- suckle (Diervilla trifida), the yellow flowers of which turn red in fading; the horse chestnut; the foxglove, and the Gladiolus. The garden pea is almost invaria- bly and the garden bean is usually self-fertilized, but both, as well as the scarlet runner and sweet pea, are in fact bumblebee flowers. Honey- bees often visit the flowers of the scarlet runner, from which they are able to suck a little nectar, and oc- casionally the nectaries are perforat- ed by bumblebees and then the honeybees rob the blossoms ' in wholesale fashion. Besides the red clover, the crimson and Alpine and several other clovers are bumblebee flowers, indeed a good many of the pulse family, although visited by honeybees and other long-tongued bees, as well as bumblebees, seem rather better adapted to the latter, since they are better able-to depress the keel. The lungwort (Pulmonaria offici- nalis), Belladonna (Atropa Bella- dona), the bearberry (Arctostaphylos Uva-u'rsi), the wood betony (Pedicu- laris silvatica) , gill-over-the-ground (Glechoma hederacea), and largely butter-and-eggs (Linaria vulgaris) are bumblebee flowers. The scarlet sage (Salvia pratensis), with its walking beam mechanism for placing the pollen on a bee's back; dragon- head (Dracocephalum), Molucca balm (Moluccella laevis), bugle (Aju- ga reptans), and several orchids, as the showy orchis (Orchis specta- bilis), the pink flowers of Pogonia (ophioglossoides), common in bogs, and Calypso borealis are all pollinat- ed by bumblebees. The pretty flow- ers o
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