. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. OR, MANUAI, Olf THE APIARY. 181 The bees change from worker {Fig. 78, c) to drone cells (Pig. 78, a), which are one-fifth larger, and vice versa, not by any system (Fig. 78, b), but simply by enlarging or contract- ing. It usually takes about four rows to complete the transfor- FiG. HhombSy Pyramidal Bof^en and cross-sections of cells. —Illustrated. JIoTiey-Comb.— a Drone-cells. 6 Deformed cells. after Duncan. c Worker-cells. dd Queen-cells. mation, though the number of deformed cells varies from two, very rarely one,
. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. OR, MANUAI, Olf THE APIARY. 181 The bees change from worker {Fig. 78, c) to drone cells (Pig. 78, a), which are one-fifth larger, and vice versa, not by any system (Fig. 78, b), but simply by enlarging or contract- ing. It usually takes about four rows to complete the transfor- FiG. HhombSy Pyramidal Bof^en and cross-sections of cells. —Illustrated. JIoTiey-Comb.— a Drone-cells. 6 Deformed cells. after Duncan. c Worker-cells. dd Queen-cells. mation, though the number of deformed cells varies from two, very rarely one, to eight. The perfect drone-cells may be, often are, contiguous to perfect worker-cells, the irregular cells being used to fill out the necessary irregularities. An English. 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 Cook, Albert John, 1842-1916. Chicago. Ill. : George W. York & Co.
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