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Fig. 3. Insects that visit sweet clover. 



female having the sole care of her own offspring, while the long-tongued 

 ones are either solitary or social. Our natives social bees are all bumble- 

 bees. The honey bee probably comes from Asia. In the tropical parts of 

 the earth are minute stingless bees that form much larger colonies than 

 our honey-bee. 



The more common of the short-tongued bees are the miner bees — those 

 that dig in the ground for their coijibination storehouses and nests. 

 Andrena, a smoothish black bee, with the rear part of the abdomen fuzzy, 

 is a common example. Each Andrena female stocks her own larder with 



