The insect book : a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies / by Leland O. Howard.

  • Howard, L. O. (Leland Ossian), 1857-1950.
Date:
1901
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The insect book : a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies / by Leland O. Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE TRUE BEES (Super-family Apoidea) This great group, comprising about five thousand species, in- cludes all of the true bees, both the honey-gatherers which have social communities and live a strict community life, and the solitary bees. We have already seen inthetableof super- families that the hind feet of these insects are dilated or thickened, and that the hairs of the head and thorax are feathery. These pe- culiar feathery hairs are found only in the true bees, which also differ from other Hymen- optera by the pecu- liar modification of the mouth - parts which are length- ened into a struc- ture which is almost like a proboscis. It is a very conspic- uous organ and is fitted in many of them for probing deep flowers and Fig. i.—Head and tongue of worker honey bee. for gathering nec- (Redrawn from Cheshire.) tar. The mandi- bles or upper jaws