. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the "New Zealand bee manual" greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten. Bees. BEE MANUAL. 57 passage of the CBSophagus or gullet connecting the mouth with the honey sac and stomach. Each leg has four principal joints, the coxa, trochanter, femur, and tibia, and five smaller joints, called tarsi, terminating in a two-hooked claw. The coxa and trochanter are short and broad joints, the former working with a ball and socket movement in the so-call
. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the "New Zealand bee manual" greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten. Bees. BEE MANUAL. 57 passage of the CBSophagus or gullet connecting the mouth with the honey sac and stomach. Each leg has four principal joints, the coxa, trochanter, femur, and tibia, and five smaller joints, called tarsi, terminating in a two-hooked claw. The coxa and trochanter are short and broad joints, the former working with a ball and socket movement in the so-called coxal cavity in the body ring; the femur represents the thigh, the tibia the leg, and the tarsi the foot joints of the higher animals. In the honey-bee the first of the tarsi is nearly as large as the tibia, to which it is attached; it is called the basal tarsus, and in the posterior legs of the worker bee it and the tibia are widened out and hollowed on the under side so as to form the "pollen basket " already mentioned at page 42, and as shown in the followina; engravino;:—. Fig. LEG OF BEE, SHOWING POLLEN BASKET. The front legs of the workers have also a very peculiar formation, shown in the next engraving. Under what may be termed the knee joint there is a cavity, c, in the tibia, and a spur or finger, b, on the femur joint, which can be pressed over the cavity or opened at the will of the bee. Most modern \9riters* describe this apparatus as performing an important part in the gathering of pollen, as follows :— When a bee is about to transfer the pollen she has gathered to her pollen baskets, she places her tongue in the cavities of both legs, closes the blades, and then withdraws it, leaving the pollen adhering to the sides of her knees. It is then worked * Especially Mr. A. I. Root, in his " A B C of Bee Culture " it is not men- tioned by Langstroth or Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that m
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