. The animans and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology. MUTUAL AID AND COMMUNAL LIFE 435 as white, soft, footless, helpless, grubs. They are fed bycertain worker bees called nurses (workers which have notyet learned to go out and gather pollen and honey), at firston a highly nutritious substance called bee-jelly, which thenurses make in their stomachs and regurgitate. After twoor three days of bee-jelly diet they are given pollen andhoney. A few days later a small mass of this new foodis put into each cell, which is then capped or coveredwith wax. The larvae after eating
. The animans and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology. MUTUAL AID AND COMMUNAL LIFE 435 as white, soft, footless, helpless, grubs. They are fed bycertain worker bees called nurses (workers which have notyet learned to go out and gather pollen and honey), at firston a highly nutritious substance called bee-jelly, which thenurses make in their stomachs and regurgitate. After twoor three days of bee-jelly diet they are given pollen andhoney. A few days later a small mass of this new foodis put into each cell, which is then capped or coveredwith wax. The larvae after eating what is stored in their. m •*
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