FARMERS' FRIENDS AMONG THE WASPS AND HORNETS 



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© National Geographic Society Painting by Hashime Murayama 



HONEST BEES AND THIEVES PASTURE TOGETHER ON NEW JERSEY TEA 



All are native to North America. The Bumblebee, Bombits- vagans (10), is a common garden 

 visitor. (1) Anthidiellum notatum; (2) a robber who steals the stores of other bees, Sphecodes 

 ranunculi, female; (3) Halictus fuscipennis; (4) H. stultus, called a "Sweat-bee" because it often flies 

 about perspiring humans (Plate VI, fig. 7 and 10); (5) Agaposfemon splendens, male; (6) same, female; 

 (7) and (8) Augochlora pura, females; (9) Augochloropsis coerulea; (11) Anthophora abriipta, male; 

 (12) same, female; (13) Andrena vestita. Twice life size. 



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