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to a great height, towering above the brood, and 
contain an immense accumulation of pollen. But 
the carder-bees, and three or four underground 
species related to them, build little pouches or 
pockets of wax on to the sides of the wax-covered 
bunches of larve to receive the pollen, which, in 



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Fic. 13.—Photograph of a comb of &. lucorum, showing pollen-pots and 
honey-pots. The four pollen-pots rose 4 in. above the rest of the comb, and 
each of them was about 12 in. high, and } in. in diameter. The diameter 
of the comb was 4% in. 
their case, is gathered .in comparatively small 
quantities. Upon this difference in instinct I 
have grounded a division of the species, calling 
those that store the pollen in cells detached from 
the bunches of larvz “ pollen-storers,” and those that 
place it in receptacles formed in the sides of the 
bunches of larvze “ pocket-makers.” ' 
1 Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine for the year 1899, p. 230. 
