The American apiculturist: a journal devoted to scientific and practical beekeeping . the last ring, whichbelongs to the cone-shaped portion,a small canal (A) which passesalong the edge of the dorsal half oftlie ring, and is covered above bythe edge of the preceding Nassonoff calls to mind the factthat bees when irritated often raisetheir abdomens turning the tips(the fifth ring) downward in such amanner that the last two ringsspread apart and show a white stripewliicli separates thera.^ It is ex-actly upon the posterior part of thisstripe that tlie small canal in ques-tion is fo
The American apiculturist: a journal devoted to scientific and practical beekeeping . the last ring, whichbelongs to the cone-shaped portion,a small canal (A) which passesalong the edge of the dorsal half oftlie ring, and is covered above bythe edge of the preceding Nassonoff calls to mind the factthat bees when irritated often raisetheir abdomens turning the tips(the fifth ring) downward in such amanner that the last two ringsspread apart and show a white stripewliicli separates thera.^ It is ex-actly upon the posterior part of thisstripe that tlie small canal in ques-tion is found, opening toward thespace between the rings. At the bottom of this canal alarge number of small glandsopen, each one of which has an ovalcell (B) with a well-defined glob-,ule. From each cell a fine ductstarts out and extends to the bot-tom of the canal in question. The 1 This same stripe can be seen when beesbeat their wi)ig:s in ventilating the hive or asa sign of contentment.— F. B. walls of these ducts are of thesame texture as the hard portionsof the cutaneous Section of the cutaneons covering of the lastring ((i) and next to the last ring (5) of theworker-bee. A, the small canal; B, the gland -ules; C, the ducts of the glandules. This description completed, goes on to conjecture asto the use of the glandules referredto and wonders if they secrete thewax or the perspiration ; but reject-ing, himself, the first hypothesis onaccount of the evidence assigningthe formation of wax to numeroussegments on the under side of theabdomen, he stops with the secondsupposition, basing it upon theabsence of other glandules ( ?) onthe body of the bee. Without rejecting absolutely supposition, I comparethe existence of the above men-tioned glandules with tlie observa-tion reported in one of the numbersof the Bulletin regarding the littledrops that bees let fall beforeentering their hives. It is wellknown that bees partake freelyof liquid substance
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