Elements of biology; a practical Elements of biology; a practical text-book correlating botany, zoology, and human physiology elementsofbiolog00hunt Year: [c1907] INSECTS 251 is, on the contrary, a captive most of her life. Most of the eggs are fertilized by the sperm cells of the males; the unfertilized eggs develop into males or drones. After a short exist- ence in the hive the drones are usually driven out by the workers. The fertilized eggs may develop into workers, or, if the young larva is fed with a certain kind of food, it will develop into a young queen. The cells of the comb are bui
Elements of biology; a practical Elements of biology; a practical text-book correlating botany, zoology, and human physiology elementsofbiolog00hunt Year: [c1907] INSECTS 251 is, on the contrary, a captive most of her life. Most of the eggs are fertilized by the sperm cells of the males; the unfertilized eggs develop into males or drones. After a short exist- ence in the hive the drones are usually driven out by the workers. The fertilized eggs may develop into workers, or, if the young larva is fed with a certain kind of food, it will develop into a young queen. The cells of the comb are built by the workers out of wax secreted from the ven- tral surface of the bodies. The wax is cut off in thin plates by means of the wax shears between the two last joints of the hind legs. These cells are used by the queen to place her eggs in, one to each cell, and the young are hatched after three days to begin life as footless white grubs. Hornets' nest, opened to show the cells of the comb. From photograph by Overton.
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