. 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. Bees. BEE MANUAL. 63 copulation was necessary, but tliat some gaseous emanations from the body of the drone produced fecundation by pene- trating the body of the queen. About a hundred years later great advances Avere made in the knowledge of the physiology of the bee. It is said that Jansha, apiarist to the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, discovered the fact that young q
. 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. Bees. BEE MANUAL. 63 copulation was necessary, but tliat some gaseous emanations from the body of the drone produced fecundation by pene- trating the body of the queen. About a hundred years later great advances Avere made in the knowledge of the physiology of the bee. It is said that Jansha, apiarist to the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, discovered the fact that young queens have to leave the hive to meet the drones ; but it is to the labours of Huber in 1787 and following years, and com-. Fig, 18,—OVARIES OF aXXEEN. municated in his letters addressed to Bonnet in the years 1789 to 1791, that we owe the first knowledge of the following main facts:—1. That the queen bee is truly oviparous; that what she deposits is a true egg, which takes three days to produce a living maggot or larva—(even the great Bonnet was inclined up to that time to believe that a minute worm, and not an egg, was produced by the queen). 2. That the queen must be impregnated by the drone in order to become fertile. 3. That. 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 Hopkins, Isaac, 1837-1925. Auckland, N. Z.
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