Notes on the Nesting Habits of Several North American Bumblebees
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Plath, Otto Emil
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In a comprehensive paper on the bumblebees of Central Europe, Friese and Wagner (1910, p. 69) make the following statement: "Insbesondere lasst die Kenntniss der Nester noch allzuviel zu wunschen ubrig, was um so empfindlicher ins Gewicht fallt, als gerade von dieser Seite her die vielleicht wertvollsten Aufschlusse zu erwarten stehen, weil allen Folgerungen, die lediglich auf einem durch Fang der frei fliegenden Tiere gewonnenen Materiale basieren, notwendigerweise eine gewisse Unsicherheit anhaften muss." The truth of this statement has been amply proved by the work of Drewsen and Schiodte (1838), Smith (1876), Schmiedeknecht (1878), Hoffer (1881, 1882/83, 1885, 1888), Coville (1890), Sladen (1899, 1912, 1915), and Frison (1916, 1917, 1918, 1921).
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1922Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of BiologyJournal
Psyche: A Journal of Entomology
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
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Plath, O. E. “Notes on the Nesting Habits of Several North American Bumblebees,” Psyche, vol. 29, no. 5-6, pp. 189-202, 1922.
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0033-2615
1687-7438