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is much prized by the bees, which 

 swarm upon the leaves. If such 

 nectar is pleasant to the taste, as 

 Mr. Terrell avers, I should have no 

 fear of the bees collecting it. 



From the middle to the last of 

 June, the eggs begin to hatch, 

 though hatching is not completed 

 for some weeks after it begins, so 

 we may expect young lice to hatch 

 out from late in June till August. 



The young lice are yellow, half 

 as broad as long, tapering slightly 

 toward the posterior. The seven 



the middle under side of the leaf. 

 In autumn the much-enlarged louse 

 withdraws from the leaves and 

 attaches to the under side of the 

 twigs and branches, while on the 

 leaves they sometimes, though 

 rarely, withdraw their beak, and 

 change their position. In winter, 

 the 3'oung lice remain dormant ; 

 but with the warmth of spring, as 

 the sap begins to circulate, the 

 lice begin to suck and grow. The 

 increase of size as the eggs begin 

 to develop is very rapid. Now the 



abdominal segments appear very 

 distinctly. The legs and antennte 

 are seen from the other side. As 

 in the young of all such bark lice, 

 the beak, or sucking-tube, is long 

 and thread-like, and is bent under 

 the body till the j'oung louse is 

 ready to settle down to earnest 

 work as a sapper. Two hair-like 

 appendages, or setae, which soon 

 disappear, terminate the body. 



The young, newly born louse, 

 wanders two or three days, then 

 inserts its beak into the leaves 

 where it first locates. It prefers 



drops of nectar begin to fall, so 

 that leaves and sidewalks under- 

 neath become sweet and sticky. 

 In the last Ohio Farmer, Mr. 

 Singleton states that leaves of the 

 maple do secrete honey-dew. It 

 is on the leaves, and there are no 

 aphides or plant-lice. Mr. Single- 

 ton's honey-dew is, without doubt, 

 this same nectar from bark-lice. 

 Had Mr. S. looked on the under 

 side of the branches, instead of on 

 the leaves, he would have found, 

 not aphides, to be sure, but bark- 

 lice. 



