... 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, ...

... abun- dantly. We had, therefore, to learn whether bees, deprived of pollen for a series of time, would make wax, ... of the preceding experiment would prove whether the pollen itself had the same property, in- stead of supplying our bees with honey, we fed them on nothing except ...

... one time sup- posed to be merely the pollen of plants elaborated by bees. Bonnet, however, so early as 1768, asserted it ... 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, ...

... nurse the young, and gather the nectar and pollen in the fields. The bees can raise a new queen at will from ... and pollen, partly di- gested. Afterward they receive pollen and honey undigested until the sixth day, when their cell is sealed. If a queen bee is to be developed, the larva is fed ...

... leaft poffible time. Concerning Wax. The wax oS bees is merely the pollen very little altered. TheSe inSeas have the kftmurs ...

... surface, in which the pollen is placed. The pollen is held there by hairs which HONEY BEE 157 arise on the edges of the tibia. ... the various substances from the flowers, the worker Bees inci- dentally transfer pollen from one plant to another, thereby bringing about ...

... anther is bulging full of yellow dust called pollen, which spills out whenever a bee brushes against it. There is one more part ... the production of seed. Sometimes the wind carries pollen from one flower to ... insects. The honey- bee goes from flower to flower continually, and its ...