OR, MANUA1< OF THE APIARY. 



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CHAPTER XVIL 



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 



Tulip-Tree Bark-Louse, 3, 4, 5, and 6, Greatly Magnified. — Original. 

 1 Scale on Twig. 2 Underside of scale. 



3, 4 Young Lice. 

 5 Antenna. 



6 Leg. 



secrete a kind of liquid sweet, which, in the dearth of any- 

 thing better, the bees seem 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. 

 I have described this insect (Fig. 196) under the name of 



