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Sleeping Habits Of Certain Hymenoptera, Nathan Banks Dec 1902

Sleeping Habits Of Certain Hymenoptera, Nathan Banks

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The various means by which insects rest have been but little investigated. Occasional notes have been published, but often in connection with other matter, so that it is extremely difficult to collate the recorded facts. Since the Hymenoptera are among the most assiduous, as well as the most intelligent workers, it is natural that they should exhibit some interesting habits of sleep. The idea that the bee sleeps in the flower seems to have invaded literature at an early date. And there are a number of bees that commonly do remain in flowers (such as those of cucurbits and campanulas) …


Colletes Crucis, T. D. A. Cockerell Nov 1902

Colletes Crucis, T. D. A. Cockerell

Ca

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Classification Of The Fossorial, Predateous And Parasitic Wasps, Or The Superfamily Vespoidea No.10, William H. Ashmead Nov 1902

Classification Of The Fossorial, Predateous And Parasitic Wasps, Or The Superfamily Vespoidea No.10, William H. Ashmead

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The globose or rounded head, which is never flat, oblong, and the difference in the antennae, the antennae in males being 10-jointed, in the females 13-jointed, readily separate the subfamily from the Bethylinre. The group comes quite close to the Dryininae, but in the latter the head is transverse or subquadrate, never rounded, while the antennae are 10-jointed in both sexes.


A New Bee Of The Genus Bombomelecta, T. D. A. Cockerell Oct 1902

A New Bee Of The Genus Bombomelecta, T. D. A. Cockerell

Ca

No abstract provided.


Classification Of The Fossorial, Predateous And Parasitic Wasps, Or The Superfamily Vespoidea No.9, William H. Ashmead Oct 1902

Classification Of The Fossorial, Predateous And Parasitic Wasps, Or The Superfamily Vespoidea No.9, William H. Ashmead

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This family was first defined by that astute British systematist, A. H. Haliday, who, as early as 1839, very correctly placed the family among the Fossores.


Classification Of The Fossorial, Predateous And Parasitic Wasps, Or The Superfamily Vespoidea No.8, William H. Ashmead Sep 1902

Classification Of The Fossorial, Predateous And Parasitic Wasps, Or The Superfamily Vespoidea No.8, William H. Ashmead

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Prof. Westwood and others confused these wasps with the Vespidae and the Eumenidae, although Latreille had years previously established his family Masarides. Henry de Saussure, in his "Etudes," treats them as a tribe. They, however, represent a distinct family close to the Eurnenidae, but easily separated from them and the Vespidae by the wings not being folded longitudinally, by peculiarities of the antennae, which are usually strongly clavate at tip; by the wholly different abdomen, the venter being flatter; and by the much larger scutellum.


Notes And Descriptions Of Bees, J. C. Crawford Jr. Sep 1902

Notes And Descriptions Of Bees, J. C. Crawford Jr.

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The specimens on which this paper is based are in the collection of the University of Nebraska, unless otherwise stated. Especial acknowledgments are due to Prof. Cockerell for specimens and suggestions, to Prof. Titus for specimens, and to Prof. Bruner for overseeing my work.


Classification Of The Fossorial, Predateous And Parasitic Wasps, Or The Superfamily Vespoidea No.7, William H. Ashmead Aug 1902

Classification Of The Fossorial, Predateous And Parasitic Wasps, Or The Superfamily Vespoidea No.7, William H. Ashmead

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To this family belong the potter wasps. They differ from the paper-making wasps in being solitary and in constructing their nests of mud or clay, instead of macerated woody fibre or pulp. It is perhaps one of the largest, if not the largest, families in the Vespoidea, and is well represented in all parts of the world by many genera and species.


Classification Of The Fossorial, Predateous And Parasitic Wasps, Or The Superfamily Vespoidea No.6, William H. Ashmead Jul 1902

Classification Of The Fossorial, Predateous And Parasitic Wasps, Or The Superfamily Vespoidea No.6, William H. Ashmead

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This family is restricted to the paper-making wasps, all social species living in large communities and having three distinct sexes, female, worker, and male, thus agreeing with the social bees, the Apidea and Bombidae, and with many ants, Dorylidae, Myrmicidae, Formicidae, etc.


The Genus Lithurgopsis, T. D. A. Cockerell Jun 1902

The Genus Lithurgopsis, T. D. A. Cockerell

Ca

No abstract provided.


Classification Of The Fossorial, Predateous And Parasitic Wasps, Or The Superfamily Vespoidea No.5, William H. Ashmead Jun 1902

Classification Of The Fossorial, Predateous And Parasitic Wasps, Or The Superfamily Vespoidea No.5, William H. Ashmead

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This subfamily comes nearest to the Aporinae, and a few of the males are easily confused with and mistaken for some males in the latter group.


Papers From The Harriman Alaska Expedition, William Harris Ashmead May 1902

Papers From The Harriman Alaska Expedition, William Harris Ashmead

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In this paper 335 species are recorded, of which number 201 are regarded as new to science and are here first described. Of the 10 superfamilies, into which the order is now divided, all are represented in Alaska and are distributed into 29 families and 183 genera. Two of these genera, Dallatorrea and Hyposyntactus are new, and of the remainder, thirty have not been previously reported from North America.


New Bees Of The Genus Andrena, From Wisconsin, T. D. A. Cockerell Feb 1902

New Bees Of The Genus Andrena, From Wisconsin, T. D. A. Cockerell

Ca

No abstract provided.


Nidification De Quelques Megachiles, R. Buysson Jan 1902

Nidification De Quelques Megachiles, R. Buysson

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Je connais la nidification d’un certain nombre d’especes de Megachiles, habitant le centre de la France. Pour toutes elle est analogue, que les cellules soient construites dans la terre ou sous une galerie creusee dans du bois tendre. Ce sont des cellules plus ou moins nombreuses places bout a bout et faites avec des fragments de feuilles. Rarement il y a deux series de cellules cote a cote. L’habilete de l’insecte consiste a tailler dans le limbe des feuilles des morceaux d’une forme reguliere et convenables pour la confection des cellules: des morceaux oboves pour les parois laterales et d’autres …


Art. Xxxii - A List Of The Hymenoptera Of New Zealand, Peter Cameron Jan 1902

Art. Xxxii - A List Of The Hymenoptera Of New Zealand, Peter Cameron

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No abstract provided.


The Bee Genus Dialictus, J. C. Crawford Jr. Jan 1902

The Bee Genus Dialictus, J. C. Crawford Jr.

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This differs from the true anomalus in its larger size, more densely punctured mesothorax, finer and more numerous lines on the metathorax, dark tegulae, abdomen distinctly punctured, quite closely on the second segment; dense r pubescence on the abdomen nearly concealing the surface on the apical segments; apical margins of abdominal segments testaceous.


As Especies Paraenses Do Genero Euglossa Latr, Adolpho Ducke Jan 1902

As Especies Paraenses Do Genero Euglossa Latr, Adolpho Ducke

Da

No abstract provided.


North American Bees Of The Genus Andrena, T. D. A. Cockerell Jan 1902

North American Bees Of The Genus Andrena, T. D. A. Cockerell

Ca

No abstract provided.


Contributions From The New Mexico Biological Station— Xii. On Some Genera Of Bees, T. D. A. Cockerell, Emerson Atkins Jan 1902

Contributions From The New Mexico Biological Station— Xii. On Some Genera Of Bees, T. D. A. Cockerell, Emerson Atkins

Ca

No abstract provided.


Flowers And Insects In New Mexico, T. D. A. Cockerell Jan 1902

Flowers And Insects In New Mexico, T. D. A. Cockerell

Ca

No abstract provided.


Zur Kenntnis Der Prosopis Annularis K. (= Dilatata K.)- Gruppe. (Hym.), J. D. Alfken Jan 1902

Zur Kenntnis Der Prosopis Annularis K. (= Dilatata K.)- Gruppe. (Hym.), J. D. Alfken

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Infolge der Bearbeitung der reichhaltigen Bieneusammlung meines verehrten Kollegen Th. Meyer in Hamburg habe ich eine genane Untersuchung der mir bekannten Arten du groupe si confus de Prosopis dilatala K.", wie J. Vachal sehr richtig sagt, vorgenommen: dadurch habe ich die Uebenengung gewonnen, dass im nordwestlichen Deutschland 2 sehr nahe verwandte Arten ans der genannten Gruppe vorkommen, welche ich irrtumlich bisher beide als P. dilatata K. bezeichuete. Nur die eine Art ist die echte P. dilatata K. = annularis K., die andere ist die P. compar Forst. Forster beschrieb von der letzteren nur das nach einem Exemplare, welches von Kellner …


Identification De Quelques Megachiles, R. Buysson Jan 1902

Identification De Quelques Megachiles, R. Buysson

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Bysson begins the discussion with a general discussion of the nests of Megachile. They place their nests in various places (cavities). The nests are always constructed of pieces of leaves – oval ones on the walls and discs (small) forming partitions between cells and bottom. The appear to choose leaves of certain plants – but are not exclusive. Ordinarily they make more nests with more cells plants – but are not exclusive. Ordinarily they make more nests with more cells than do the Osmia. At least with the following species he noted that in all cases, the eggs to be …


Description Of New Species Of Aculeate Hymenoptera From Borneo, Peter Cameron Jan 1902

Description Of New Species Of Aculeate Hymenoptera From Borneo, Peter Cameron

Bu

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On The Hymenoptera Collected By Mr. Robert Shelford At Sarawak, And On The Hymenoptera Of The Sarawak Museum, Peter Cameron Jan 1902

On The Hymenoptera Collected By Mr. Robert Shelford At Sarawak, And On The Hymenoptera Of The Sarawak Museum, Peter Cameron

Bu

No abstract provided.


Ueber Den Nestbau Von Osmia Spinulosa K. (Hym.), C. Gehrs Jan 1902

Ueber Den Nestbau Von Osmia Spinulosa K. (Hym.), C. Gehrs

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No abstract provided.


Hymenoptera Of Southern California. Ii, T. D. A. Cockerell Jan 1902

Hymenoptera Of Southern California. Ii, T. D. A. Cockerell

Ca

No abstract provided.


Hymenoptera Of Southern California. I, T. D. A. Cockerell Jan 1902

Hymenoptera Of Southern California. I, T. D. A. Cockerell

Ca

No abstract provided.


Die Apidengattung Fidelia Friese (Hym.), H. Brauns Jan 1902

Die Apidengattung Fidelia Friese (Hym.), H. Brauns

Bo

No abstract provided.