. The animans and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology. me cannot. As many of the following statementsas possible should beconfirmed by obser-vation. A honeybee com-munity is made up ofthree kinds of indi-viduals (fig. 222),\ namely, a single queenor mother which laysthe eggs from which FIG 222. The honeybee Apis mellifica; A, aH the Other bees arequeen; B, drone; C; worker. (From speci- producedj several hun-mens.) * dred drones or males, one of which becomes the royal consort, fertilizing theeggs, and from ten to forty thousand or more workers,which do all the work of
. The animans and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology. me cannot. As many of the following statementsas possible should beconfirmed by obser-vation. A honeybee com-munity is made up ofthree kinds of indi-viduals (fig. 222),\ namely, a single queenor mother which laysthe eggs from which FIG 222. The honeybee Apis mellifica; A, aH the Other bees arequeen; B, drone; C; worker. (From speci- producedj several hun-mens.) * dred drones or males, one of which becomes the royal consort, fertilizing theeggs, and from ten to forty thousand or more workers,which do all the work of the community, gathering food,making wax, building comb, ventilating the hive and car-ing for the young bees. The drones are larger, morerobust, and more hairy than the workers, while the queenis longer, with a slender tapering abdomen. Certain combsare chosen as brood-combs (fig. 223), and beginning in thecenter of these and working outward the queen lays a tinywhite elongate egg in the bottom of each cell. These eggshatch in three days, and the young bees or larvae appear. 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
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