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these insect vagabonds impose upon the unsuspecting foster- 

 mothers in these violated homes. And these same foster- 

 mothers show by their tender care of these merciless intru- 

 ders, that they are miserably fooled, for they carefully guard 

 and feed infant bees, which with age will in turn practice this 

 same nefarious trickeiy. 



I reluctantly withhold further particulars of this wonderful 

 bee family. When first I visited Messrs. Townley and Davis, 

 of this State, I was struck with the fine collection of wild 

 bees which each had made. Yet, unknowingly, they had in- 

 corporated many that were not bees. Of course, many apiarists 

 will wish to make such collections and also to study our wild 

 bees. I hope the above will prove efficient aid. I hope, too, 

 that it will stimulate others, especially youth, to the val- 

 uable and intensely interesting study of these wonders of na- 

 ture. I am glad, too, to open to the reader a page from the 

 book of nature so replete with attractions as is the above. 

 Nor do I think I have taken too much space in revealing the 

 strange and marvelous instincts, and wonderfully varied hab- 

 its, of this highest of insect families, at the head of which 

 stand our own fellow-laborers and companions of the apiary. 



THE GENUS OF THE HONEY-BEE. 



The genus Apis includes all bees that have no tibial spurs; 

 on the posterior legs. They have three cubital or sub-costal 

 cells (1, 2, 3, Fig. 3)— ^the second row from the costal or anterior 



Fig. 3. 



A..— Anterior Wino of a Bee. 1, 2, X.— Sub-costal or CuUtal Cells. 



B.— Secondary or Postei-ior Wing, a hooks to attach to Primary Wing. 



edge — on the front or primary wings. On the inner side of the 

 posterior basal tarsus, opposite the pollen baskets, in the neu- 

 ters or workers, are rows of hairs (Fig. 23) which are proba- 

 bly used in collecting pollen. In the males, which do n» 



