. Manual of the apiary. Bees. MANUAL OF THE APIARY. CHAPTEE III. NATUEAL HISTOEY OF THE HONEY-BEE. Close examination of any prosperous colony of bees, in the summer season, will discoYer a marked difference in the indiyiduals composing it. A large majority will appear small, a few hundred large and heavy, while a single one will fix attention by her long, tapering abdomen. Thus we hare the workers, drones, and queen: the first being undcYeloped females, called neuters; the second, males; and the last the fully developed female. Let us examine these in detail. r THE NEUTEES, OR WOEKER-BEES. The
. Manual of the apiary. Bees. MANUAL OF THE APIARY. CHAPTEE III. NATUEAL HISTOEY OF THE HONEY-BEE. Close examination of any prosperous colony of bees, in the summer season, will discoYer a marked difference in the indiyiduals composing it. A large majority will appear small, a few hundred large and heavy, while a single one will fix attention by her long, tapering abdomen. Thus we hare the workers, drones, and queen: the first being undcYeloped females, called neuters; the second, males; and the last the fully developed female. Let us examine these in detail. r THE NEUTEES, OR WOEKER-BEES. These (see Fig. 1) are by far the most numerous iadividuals of the hive, there being from 20,000 to 40,000 in every good colony. They are also the smallest members of the colony, measuring but little more than one-half inch in length, and being only two-thirds the length of the queen. They also possess peculiarities of structure which at once distinguish them from both the queen and drones. Their tongues (see Pig. 13.) are almost twice as long as in either the drone or queen; their jaws are much stronger; their wings, like the wings of the drone, attain the extremity of the body, while the tibia and tarsi—^names given to the last joints of the legs—of the posterior legs are hollowed out, Pig. Fig. Z. forming pollen-baskets, in which respect they differ from both the drones and the queen; the eyes do not differ from the same in the queen, but are smaller than those of the drone, and do not meet 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. [Lansing, Mich. : W. S. George & Co.
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