Archive image from page 120 of Bees their natural history and. Bees: their natural history and general management: comprising a full and experimental examination of the various systems of native and foreign apiarians; with an analytical exposition of the errors of the theory of Huber; containing, also, the latest discoveries & improvements in every department of the apiary, with a description of the most approved hives now in use CUbiodiversity1178150 Year: 1842 ( 95 THIRD CHAPTER. THE DRONES. MAKE OF THE DRONE—NUMBER OF DRONES IN A HIVE—ORGANIC STRUC- TURE OF THE DRONE—OFFICE OF THE DRONES—O
Archive image from page 120 of Bees their natural history and. Bees: their natural history and general management: comprising a full and experimental examination of the various systems of native and foreign apiarians; with an analytical exposition of the errors of the theory of Huber; containing, also, the latest discoveries & improvements in every department of the apiary, with a description of the most approved hives now in use CUbiodiversity1178150 Year: 1842 ( 95 THIRD CHAPTER. THE DRONES. MAKE OF THE DRONE—NUMBER OF DRONES IN A HIVE—ORGANIC STRUC- TURE OF THE DRONE—OFFICE OF THE DRONES—OPINION OF l'ABBE DELL A ROCCA—TWO SPECIES OF DRONES, ACCORDING TO REAUMUR AND DEBRAW —HUBER ASSERTS THE EXISTENCE OF LARGE AND LITTLE DRONES— DEFICIENCY OF DRONES IN A HIVE—METHOD OF REMEDYING THE DEFECT PROOF OF THE VERITY OF THE EXPERIMENT THE DRONE DIES AFTER COPULATION, ACCORDING TO REAUMUR—EXPERIMENT OF MR. REAUMUR —THE ACT OF COPULATION OF THE aUEEN AND THE DRONE—TIMIDITY' OF THE aUEEN BEE—QUESTION BETWEEN L'ABBE DELLA ROCCA AND MR. REAUMUR—DRONES ALWAYS EMIGRATE WITH THE SWARMS — FEW DRONES TO BE FOUND IN A SECOND SWARM—TRAGICAL END OF THE DRONES— ATTACK ON THE DRONES BY THE COMMON BEES—PERIOD OF THE MASSACRE OF THE DRONES—THE MASSACRE OF THE DRONES INJURIOUS TO THE BEES—ASSISTANCE TO BE GRANTED TO THE BEES — VARIOUS OPINIONS OF NATURALISTS AS TO THE MANNER IN WHICH THE DRONE IS KILLED—SUPPOSED TO BE BY THE STING—REFUTATION OF THAT HYPO- THESIS— COMPARISON BETWEEN THE BEE AND THE WAST IN REGARD TO THEIR STING—OPINION OF l'aBBE DELLA ROCCA—ANALYSIS OF THAT OPINION—HYPOTHESIS OF HUBER—HIS CONTRADICTIONS AND INCONSIS- TENCIES—EXAMINATION AND REFUTATION OF THE HYPOTHESIS OF HUBER —RUBER'S DISCOVERIES NOT THE RESULT OF HIS OWN OBSERVATIONS— HIS PHYSICAL INFIRMITY—FRANCOIS EEURNENS, THE DOMESTIC OF HUBER HIS CHARACTER—PREJUDICES AND SUPERSTITION MR. RENNIE AND MR. HUNTER—ERROR OF MR. HUNTER—THE BEES ACCORDING
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