332 Tulip-Tree Bark Louse. 
CHAPTER XVII. 
Honey PLANTS. 
As bees are dependent mainly upon flowers for honey, it 
of course follows that the apiarist’s success will depend 
largely upon the abundance of honey-secreting plants in 
the vicinity of his apiary. True it is that certain bark and 
plant lice secrete a kind of liquid sweet—honey of doubt- 
ful reputation—which, in the dearth of anything better, 
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2 
Tulip-Tree Bark Louse, 3, 4,5, and 6, Greatly Magnified, 
1 Scale on Twig. 2 Under side of S 
3, 4 Young Lice. 6 Antenna, ne 
6 Leg. 
the bees seen glad to appropriate. I have thus seen the 
bees thick about a large bark louse which attacks the 
tulip tree, and thus often destroys one of our best honey 
trees, - 
