... its viscid extremity to the back of the bee. The pollen-mass of the male plant (for the sexes ... decorticated trees. Tt has lately been shown that bees, instead of searching for pollen, will gladly use a very different substance, namely ...

... suc- cessful flowers as dandelions. They still produce pollen, but it is not used. Bees Not Random Visitors Inside the seed-box of ... pick up unconsidered trifles in the form of pollen grains and the dead bodies of bee-grubs; and so they manage to eke out ...

... different breed, somewhat after the manner of the bee mixing the pollen of flowers of different varieties of fruits and ...

... Their tests include honey gain, arsenic content of bees, - arsenic content of pollen brought to the hives by the bees, 6. Te Animal deaths alleged to be due ...

... fheir tests include honey gain, arsenic content of bees, arsenic content of pollen brought to the hives by the bees, Animal deaths alleged to be due to arsenic ...

... flower from above, where the stamens and 92 POLLEN AND FLOWER stigmas appear. Bees and humble bees at times endeavor to obtain ... around the receptacle. Not even the strongest humble bee can pierce this guarded ... the pollen grains with sufficient rapidity from flower to flower. ...

... communities. The parents and their offspring feed upon pollen and honey. The gigantic Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa Carolina L.) is well known by its ... many inches deep, they deposit provisions consisting of pollen for their future larvae. These bees also make holes in partially decayed wood, but ...

... communities. The parents and their offspring feed upon pollen and honey. The gigantic Carpeliter Bee (Xylocopa Carolina L.) is well known by its ... many inches deep, they deposit provisions consisting of pollen for their future larvae. These bees also make holes in partially decayed wood, but ...

... i2h PHYSIOLOGICAL LECTURES. [lect. VII. having collected the pollen, or bee bread, from the male flower, transports it lieneath his hairy thighs to the female, which he visits, to suck the honey from its ... applies part of the pollen to the stigmata. When the male and female ...

... at one time supposed to be merely the pollen of plants elaborated by bees. Bonnet, how- ever, so early as 1768, asserted ... assertion. The latter writer, indeed, proved that the pollen is not at all essential to the production of wax, for bees fed on honey and water equally secreted it, ...