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111Australian native bees — Australia has over 1,500 species of native bee. [http://www.zeta.org.au/ anbrc/faq.html#Anchor Q5 14210] Bees can be distinguished from flies in that bees have four wings, where flies have only two. [http://www.zeta.org.au/ anbrc/faq.html#Anchor… …
112dipteran — /dip teuhr euhn/, adj. 1. dipterous (def. 1). n. 2. a dipterous insect. [1835 45; DIPTER(A) + AN] * * * Any member of the more than 85,000 species in the insect order Diptera (the two winged, or true, flies), characterized by the use of only one… …
113honeybee — /hun ee bee /, n. any bee that collects and stores honey, esp. Apis mellifera. Also, honey bee. [1560 70; HONEY + BEE1] * * * Broadly, any bee that makes honey (any insect of the tribe Apini, family Apidae); more strictly, one of the four species …
114Apis fasciata — Honeybee Hon ey*bee , n. (Zo[ o]l.) Any bee of the genus {Apis}, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee ({Apis mellifica}), the Italian bee ({Apis ligustica}), and the Arabiab bee ({Apis fasciata}).… …
115Apis ligustica — Honeybee Hon ey*bee , n. (Zo[ o]l.) Any bee of the genus {Apis}, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee ({Apis mellifica}), the Italian bee ({Apis ligustica}), and the Arabiab bee ({Apis fasciata}).… …
116Apis mellifica — Honeybee Hon ey*bee , n. (Zo[ o]l.) Any bee of the genus {Apis}, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee ({Apis mellifica}), the Italian bee ({Apis ligustica}), and the Arabiab bee ({Apis fasciata}).… …
117Honeybee — Hon ey*bee , n. (Zo[ o]l.) Any bee of the genus {Apis}, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee ({Apis mellifica}), the Italian bee ({Apis ligustica}), and the Arabiab bee ({Apis fasciata}). The two… …
118Kangaroo Island — For other places with the same name, see Kangaroo Island (disambiguation). Kangaroo Island Native name: Karta (Island of the Dead) Map of Kangaroo Island …
119Brood comb — The brood comb is the beeswax structure of cells where the queen bee lays eggs. It is the part of the beehive where new brood is raised by the colony. During the summer a good queen may lay 1500 2000 eggs per day, which results in 1500 2000 bees… …
120Peter van Inwagen — is John Cardinal O Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He previously taught at Syracuse University and earned his PhD from the University of Rochester under the direction of Richard Taylor and Keith Lehrer. van Inwagen… …
