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Tulip- Tree Bark Louse, 



CHAPTER XVI I. 

 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, 



Fig. 140. 



2 3 



TuUp-Trtt BarkLoate.s, 4,S, andb. Greatly Magnified. 



I Scale on Twig. 

 3, 4 Young Lice. 

 6 Leg. 



2 Under side of Scale. 

 6 Antenna. 



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. 



