. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 156 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [April IT, Correspondence. The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, and correspondents are requested to write on one side of the paper only and give their real names and addresses, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should be drawn on separate pieces of paper. We do not undertake to return rejected communications. THE SPIRACLES OF THE HONEY BEE. [8702] Ref
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 156 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [April IT, Correspondence. The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, and correspondents are requested to write on one side of the paper only and give their real names and addresses, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should be drawn on separate pieces of paper. We do not undertake to return rejected communications. THE SPIRACLES OF THE HONEY BEE. [8702] Referring to my communica- tions in "," January 9th and 30th, of this year, I have received an in- teresting letter from Mr. Snodgrass, together with the two sketclies here re- jj reduced. At the time of my offer to readers of " ; of drones prepared for dis- •section, I sent him a few in hopes that he would be good enough to search out the second thoracic spiracle and describe a little more fully than he had done in his ••Bulletin," The Anatomy of the Honey B''e, the i>osition it occupies. He writes as follows : — " After .several unsuccessful attempts, 1 eventually found tlie second spiracle, just where I said I thought it was in a former letter. I enclose a sketch of it (Fig. 1) still attached to a piece of the upper end. of the metapleurum, the plate, maiked pi. 3, in my Bulletin Fig. 21. The adjoining sketch (Fig. 21) will show its position. It is very small, and hidden from sight in the natural condition, but Itetween the tAvo segments there is a fairly ample infolded membrane on the sides between Epm.,. Epsn, and Pl^. To get at it I cut the thorax into lateral halves'with a pair of scissors, picked out the muscles from one half, put it in a dish of alcohol undei- a binocular dissect- ing microscope, and then pulled the plates apart along the meso-metathoracic groove. The spiracle lies just before and a little below the bas
Size: 1112px × 2246px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury, bookdecade1870, bookpublisherlondon, booksubjectbees
