Excerpt from Catalogue of British Hymenoptera in the Collection of the British Museum, Vol. 1: Apidae Bees Consisting of two sexes in all the solitary species, males and females, to which another is added in the social ones, usually called a neuter, abortive female, or worker; the females and workers, excepting in the case of the hive and parasitic bees, furnished with apparatus for conveying pollen, and armed with a sting; possessing antennae, twelve-articulate in the females and workers, and thirteen-articulate in the males'; the abdomen of the females having six segments or rings, that of the males con sisting of seven all possessing four variously veined wings; two compound eyes placed laterally on the head, and three simple eyes (stemmata) on the vertex; the tongue obtuse, lanceolate, or filiform; all in their larva state feeding on pollen or honey, stored up by the parent. Some parasitical, consuming the food stored up for the legitimate inhabitant of the nest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.