. Beekeeping; a discussion of the life of the honeybee and of the production of honey. Bees; Honey. 172 Beekeeping which is perhaps but another way of sa3dng that we are too prone to put human interpretations on all such observations. V. Buttel-Reepen,' from his wide experience with bees, concludes that there are seven normal odors in a colony of bees which influence behavior. These are (1) an individual odor, (2) an odor common to the offspring of one queen, (3) brood and larval-food odor, (4) drone odor, (5) wax odor, (6) honey odor and (7) the hive odor, which is a combination of all or par
. Beekeeping; a discussion of the life of the honeybee and of the production of honey. Bees; Honey. 172 Beekeeping which is perhaps but another way of sa3dng that we are too prone to put human interpretations on all such observations. V. Buttel-Reepen,' from his wide experience with bees, concludes that there are seven normal odors in a colony of bees which influence behavior. These are (1) an individual odor, (2) an odor common to the offspring of one queen, (3) brood and larval-food odor, (4) drone odor, (5) wax odor, (6) honey odor and (7) the hive odor, which is a combination of all or part of the other odors. Whether there are other normal odors is a matter of conjecture but, m cases of dysen- tery or a brood disease, abnormal odors occur which influence the behavior of the bees. On the dorsal side of the ab- domen of the workers and queen on the articular membrane be- tween the sixth and seventh terga (counting the propodium) is a transverse area which is the external portion of a scent- producing organ. This organ was described by Nassenoff,^ later by Sladen' and more re- cently Mclndoo ^ has described the structure of the glands on the interior as well as the ex- ternal structure. This organ may perhaps be considered as the source of the individual odor of the Fig. 90. — Cross-section of typ- ical olfactory pore: SC, sense cell; SF, sense fiber; PorAp pore aperture. 'v. Buttel-Reepen, H., 1900. Sind die Bienen Reflex-maschinen? Biol. Centralbl., XX; reprinted Leipzig: Georgi; Eng. trans, by Mary H. Geisler, Medina, O.: A. I. Root Co., 48 pp. 2 Nassenoff, see Zoubareff, A., 1883. A propos d'un organe de I'abeille non encore decrit. Bui. d'apic. Suisse rem., V, pp. 215-216. Trans. Brit, bee jr., No. 136. Nassenoff's paper is in Russian. ' Sladen, P. L., 1901. A scent-producing organ in the abdomen of the bee. Gleanings in bee culture, XXIX, pp. 639-640 ; also in Ent. month, mag., XXXVIII, pp. 208-211. * Mclndoo, N. E., 1914. The scent-producing
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