CARDER-BEES. 



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Interior views of Carder-bee's Nest. 



The carder-bees may be easily distinguished from 

 their congeners (of the same genus), by being net 

 unhke the colour of the withered moss with which 

 they build their nests, having the fore part of their 

 back a dull orange, and hinder part ringed with dif- 

 ferent shades of greyish yellow. They are not so 

 large as the common humble-bee {Bombm terrestris^ 

 Latr). but rather shorter and thicker in the body 

 than the common hive-bee (Jlpis mellijica.) 



