. Elementary entomology. Insects. grown, make strong, brown, silken cocoons, in which they change to pupae. These cocoons are strengthened with wax by the queens, and are used for storing honey, after the young emerge. The first broods are all workers, and af- ter their appearance the queen has nothing more to do but lay her eggs. Later in the season the males and other queens appear, all living together in the same nest. In the a. FIG. 432. Bumble-bees a, worker; b, queen, or fertile female, and Kellogg) (After Jordan fall the young queens crawl away to a suitable hibernating place, and in th
. Elementary entomology. Insects. grown, make strong, brown, silken cocoons, in which they change to pupae. These cocoons are strengthened with wax by the queens, and are used for storing honey, after the young emerge. The first broods are all workers, and af- ter their appearance the queen has nothing more to do but lay her eggs. Later in the season the males and other queens appear, all living together in the same nest. In the a. FIG. 432. Bumble-bees a, worker; b, queen, or fertile female, and Kellogg) (After Jordan fall the young queens crawl away to a suitable hibernating place, and in the spring start new^ colonies, in the manner previously described. Honey-bees. Probably no other insect is of quite as much human interest as the honey-bee. Apiculture is a well-developed art, its literature is extensive, and its devotees have well-organized associ- ations. The honey-bee was brought from Europe by the early settlers of this country, and swarms have escaped, which have become the wild bees now found in hollow trees. There are three forms in every hive, - the queen, the drones, or males, and the workers, which are imperfectly devel- oped females. The workers are the common forms with which we are familiar, and which do all the work of the colony. The drones are larger than the workers, are reared in larger cells, and are blunter and broader in shape. They are relatively few in number, and occur only in the early summer, during the swarming season, after which they are expelled from the nest or killed by 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 Sanderson, Dwight, 1878-1944; Jackson, C. F. (Cicero Floyd), b. 1882. Boston, New York [etc. ] Ginn and Company
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