Archive image from page 61 of The illustrated Australasian bee manual. 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 CUbiodiversity1228471 Year: 1886 ( Fig 5,—THE DRONE. abdomens for secreting wax, so that they are physically incapable of doing the ordinary work of the hive. Their office is to impregnate the young queens, but very few have the chance of doing so; those that have, die immediately afterwards, and the rest are usuall
Archive image from page 61 of The illustrated Australasian bee manual. 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 CUbiodiversity1228471 Year: 1886 ( Fig 5,—THE DRONE. abdomens for secreting wax, so that they are physically incapable of doing the ordinary work of the hive. Their office is to impregnate the young queens, but very few have the chance of doing so; those that have, die immediately afterwards, and the rest are usually destroyed by the workers at the end of the swarming season, having by this time become an incumbrance only. Fig. 6—THE WORKER. The worker bees, the smallest in size, constitute the bulk of the population of the hive. A good-sized swarm should contain at least twenty thousand, and a well-stocked hive, durino- the n 'VoAM'i,''''' ®® yi O'® pound, so that a 5 lb. swarm contains about 20,000. Grood swarms, however, sometimes weigh 7 lb. to 10 lb.
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