. Animal studies. 324 ANIMAL STUDIES reproduction. The production of new individuals is the sole business of the fertile males and females ; the workers build the nest and collect food, and the soldiers protect the community from the attacks of marauding insects. The egg-laying queen grows to monstrous size, being sometimes. Fig. 193.—Termites, a, queen ; ft, male ; c, worker; d, soldier. five or six inches long, while the other individuals of the community are not more than half or three quarters of an inch long. The great size of the queen is due to the enormous number of eggs in her body. T
. Animal studies. 324 ANIMAL STUDIES reproduction. The production of new individuals is the sole business of the fertile males and females ; the workers build the nest and collect food, and the soldiers protect the community from the attacks of marauding insects. The egg-laying queen grows to monstrous size, being sometimes. Fig. 193.—Termites, a, queen ; ft, male ; c, worker; d, soldier. five or six inches long, while the other individuals of the community are not more than half or three quarters of an inch long. The great size of the queen is due to the enormous number of eggs in her body. The bumble-bees live in communities, but their social arrangements are very simple ones compared with those of the honey-bee. There is, in fact, among the bees a series of gradations from solitary to communal life. The inter- esting little green carpenter-bees live a truly solitary life. Each female bores out the pith from five or six inches of an elder branch or raspberry cane, and divides this space into a few cells by means of transverse partitions (Fig. 194). In each cell she lays an egg, and puts with it enough food —flower pollen—to last the grub or larva through its Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931; Kellogg, Vernon L. [from old catalog].
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