FIFTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART VIII. 



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May I invite your attention to this leaflet and ask each of you to take 

 this home and look over the questions, answer them and return to me. It 

 will enable us to carry on the investigation more intelligently. 



The list of plants enumerated in this pamphlet gives the more im- 

 portant honey plants. It is not, however, complete. Some of the plants 

 mentioned in this list are not generally distributed in the state. One 



Fig. 1. 



Common Wind Flower (Anemone nemorosa). One of the early spring bloom- 

 ing plants visited by bees. (Charlotte M. King.) 



plant may be a good honey plant in one part of the state and not in an- 

 other. A plant may yield an abundance of nectar at one time and not at 

 all at other times. During a visit in southeastern Iowa the past sum- 

 mer, I found bees abundant on the yellow, or golden Spanish needle 

 (Bidens aurea) in the vicinity of Centerville. This was after a rain. A 

 day later, the same plant was found in abundance near Keosauqua, the 



Fig. 2. 



Common Barberry (Berberis vulgari). 

 lotte M. King.) 



An excellent honey plant. (Char- 



