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Title: Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring), 1839-1905
Subjects: Insects Beneficial insects Insect pests
Publisher: Salem, Naturalist's agency (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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me, with the partitions and pollen musses,on which the young larva is seen in the act of feeding; natural size. Fig. (I,young larva of Anthrax sinuosa; side view. Fig. 7, pupa of Antlirii.c sinm>*<i,side view; natural size. Fig. 8, the Leaf-cutter Bee (MeyaehUe), on a rose leal,in the act of cutting out a circular piece. Fig. 9, cells of Megachile, in the elder:natural size. Fig. K), larva of (criitiiin (li//,l,i, the little green Upholsterer Bee;enlarged. Fig. 11, cells of the same in the stem of the elder; natural size. Fig.1-J, cells of Osmiii lii/iiinini, new species, the wood-devouring Mason-bee, exca-vated in the maple: natural size. Fig. I,!, cells of Oxmitt simillima, the commongreen Mason-bee, built in the deserted gall of the Oak-gall Fly. Fig. 14, a singleearthen cell of the same: natural si/.c. Fig. 15, pollen mass, or bee-bread ofOxiiiin Hi/ii<ii-iii: natural si/e. It is made up of distinct pellets of pollen, whichare probably stuck together with saliva. Plate 4.
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ARCHITECTURE OF BEES. :. ill and fruit trees which blossom Inter. The antennae are black,and the green body is covered with fine white hairs, becomingyellowish above. In the Harris collection are the cells and specimens of O.s//<mp(«-ijka. Say, the peaceful Osmia, which, according to the man-uscript notes of Dr. Harris, is found in the perfect state inearthen cells (Plate 5, Fig. 2) beneath stones. The cell is ovalcylindrical, a little contracted as usual with those of all the spe-cies of the genus, thus forming an urn-shaped cell. It is halfan inch long, and nearly three-tenths of an inch wide, while thecocoon, winch is rather thin, is three-tenths of an inch long. The following genera, called Cuckoo Bees, are parasitic onother bees, laying their eggs in the cells, or nests, of their host.In Ccetioxys the body is stout, and the bee closely mimics itshost, Megachile. The ligula is very long, being almost threetimes the length of the labium, and the paraglossffi are whollywanting ;

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