. The humble-bee [microform] : its life-history and how to domesticate it with descriptions of all the British species of Bombus and Psithyrus. Bees; Apiculture; Abeilles; Abeilles; Bee culture; Bees. FM 7^: Ifc ! â â 4 ? i 80 THE HUMBLE-BEE enormously in size, but also undergo structural modifications favourable for the production of a large number of embryos. In Sp/ucmlaria bombi, the remarkable parasite of the humble-bee, the females, after copulating in the free state, migrate into the queen-bees that live through the winter. Here the gut degenerates and a kind of hernia of the body-wall,
. The humble-bee [microform] : its life-history and how to domesticate it with descriptions of all the British species of Bombus and Psithyrus. Bees; Apiculture; Abeilles; Abeilles; Bee culture; Bees. FM 7^: Ifc ! â â 4 ? i 80 THE HUMBLE-BEE enormously in size, but also undergo structural modifications favourable for the production of a large number of embryos. In Sp/ucmlaria bombi, the remarkable parasite of the humble-bee, the females, after copulating in the free state, migrate into the queen-bees that live through the winter. Here the gut degenerates and a kind of hernia of the body-wall, containing the generative organs, is. KlG. Spharuhuia hm,H. .1, KiTiinle willi partially protruded vagina, s. Jl. The same with still more dcvt-loped uterine growth, !. C, Uterine out- growth fully formed , oviduct, and uterus, xc. The relatively iuinutc Irady of the worm. All niagnitied about ten times. (.After Sedgwick). formed, while the body of the worm shrinks to a small appendage. The eggs develop in the body of the insect into larva; which pass out of the body, become free and after some months become sexually ; ' The parasite lives in the abdomen and the uterine outgrowth, which may be found fully developed in the hibernating queens where it attains a length of about half-an-inch, looks at first sight as ' ./ Stiuient's r,.xt-/iook 0/ /.oo.'o^^', by A. .^edgwick, , vol. j. pages 282 and 2S3. .See aN,, K. Leucliarl', A'eiif Jititra^^e :. A'fnntiiiss,/. NinuUoani, Leipzig, 1SS7. I i!. 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 Sladen, F. W. L. (Frederick William Lambert), 1876?-1921. London ; Toronto : MacMillan
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