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morn till dewy eve. Very similar conditions exist in all 

 the Borrauinacetv, in Brunella and Pontederia, but when 

 like conditions meet in white privet, or clethra, the bees 

 are just as numerous ; also in a different style of tubular 

 rtower as crimson or white foxglove. This last, of a totally 

 different color from Anchusa, never lacked for buml^le bees 

 while a flower remained on the stem 



Honey bees have absolutely no regard for special colors ; 

 they go readily everywhere that nectar is accessible, natu- 

 rally taking shorter tubes to probe than the bumble bees. 

 A green flower is just as acceptable to them as a blue one, 

 provided it is nectariferous, their business being to collect 

 honey, and if green flowers can furnish it, or even green 

 leaves, they will be on hand. 



Moths visit at twilight yellow, white, green, red and 

 pur})le flowers equally ! The same humming bird was seen 

 to visit the following flowers in the order stated : Gaillardia, 

 Digitalis, Campanula, Heliotrope, Lonicera, Gladiolus ; all 

 colors represented. They also visit Tecoma, Tropa-olum, 

 Arctium, Impatiens, Tiger Lily, etc. 



There are of course certain kinds of beetles and bugs that 

 feed upon the foliage or flowers of a [)articular family as 

 upon Asclepias, Solanum, etc., but these care not at all 

 for color. 



The only difference I And regarding white flowers may 

 be explained by their size : Mayweed, erigeron, achillea, 

 slum, daucus, etc., have the very smallest white flowers, 

 and very naturally would be visited by flies, the most di- 

 minutive bees, and the smallest butterflies, as Clivi/sojjJianus 

 and Fhyciodes, and this is exactly the fact in regard to 

 these flowers ; l)ut when the same colored flowers get to 

 the size of clethra, privet, cephalanthus, garden chei-ry, 

 blackberry, white pond lily, etc., which are no more spe- 

 cialized than the former, the bees are very much in evidence 

 and also the larger butterflies. 



There are a dozen kinds of bum])le l)ees, Bombiis, in 



