[1535] Linn. Trans. ix. 78—. t. i. f. 20.
[1536] Ibid. 55. t. i. f. 12.
[1537] This insect does not, I believe, eat the petals of the rose, but laps the nectar it produces. I have seen it employed upon wounded trees lapping the sap.
[1538] Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 172. 257.
[1539] See above, p. 491, note[1467].
[1540] Ibid. p. 219; and Vol. I. p. [267]—.
[1541] Ibid. p. 256—.
[1542] Apis * *. e. 2. K.
[1543] Apis * *. c. 2. α. K.