CHAPTER IX. 
Other Honey-Bees. — The Humble Bee. — The Carder Bee. 
The Lapidary Bee. — The Carpenter Bee. — The Mason 
Bee. — The Mining Bee. — The Upholsterer Bee. — The 
Poppy Bee. — The Rose-leaf Cutter. — “ The Works of 
the Lord are great.” 
The reader will not wish us to close this book 
without speaking of other kinds of bees, which, 
although not so interesting in their life and habits, 
perhaps, as the hive bee, nor so useful to man, 
are yet objects well worthy of our study and 
notice. 
The different species of bees are very numer- 
ous, and to describe them all would require a vol- 
ume much larger than this, and the reader would 
find it tedious. One traveler speaks of fourteen 
distinct species of honey-bee generally small in 
size, and stingless, in one district of Central 
America. The swarms usually make their 
homes in the hollow limbs of trees. The people 
remove these to their houses, suspend them in 
