. Bees & bee-keeping; scientific and practical. A complete treatise on the anatomy, physiology, floral relations, and profitable management of the hive bee. Bee culture; Bees. ORGANS OF THE QUEEN. 21J rather more than ^in. in diameter, glistening like burnished silver, because coated with the closest and most densely felted plexus of tracheae with which I am acquainted. This spermatheca is in structural communication with the common oviduct, but the smallest roughness will break it from its attach- ment, and will frustrate any endeavour to discover how it is filled up and used. Should it,
. Bees & bee-keeping; scientific and practical. A complete treatise on the anatomy, physiology, floral relations, and profitable management of the hive bee. Bee culture; Bees. ORGANS OF THE QUEEN. 21J rather more than ^in. in diameter, glistening like burnished silver, because coated with the closest and most densely felted plexus of tracheae with which I am acquainted. This spermatheca is in structural communication with the common oviduct, but the smallest roughness will break it from its attach- ment, and will frustrate any endeavour to discover how it is filled up and used. Should it, by accident, become detached, however, we may still study the exceedingly curious and complicated valvular appa-. Fig. 43.—Spermatheca (Magnified Forty times). a Space filled by Clear Fluid; b, Mass of Spermatozoa; e, Spermathecal Duct; d, d, Spermatozoa in Activity. ratus with which it is furnished. Removing it to the stage of the dissecting microscope (see page 74), and surrounding it with dilute glycerin, we get glimpses of a contained membrane between the meshes of the investing tracheae. So far as I know, those who have studied this matter have failed to discover that these tracheae merely closely embrace the actual sperma- theca and that they in no instance enter its walls; but such is the fact, and, by very careful teasing and cuttincr with needle-knives, we may so separate the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cheshire, Frank Richard, 1833?-1894. London, L. U. Gill
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