. The honey bee. Bees. The IToney Bee 139'; being unfertilized they can produce nothing else. Their egg lay- ing is very irregular. Single cells often contain a dozen or more eggs. While the work of the worker bees is in the main remark- able and unapproachable, when they attempt something for which they are not qualified by nature, they make a miserable failure of it. The difficulty of introducing a laying queen is greatly increased in a colony infested with these obnoxious laying Fig. 55. Natural built queen cells, the uppermost one having hatched, DEONES The drones are males. They
. The honey bee. Bees. The IToney Bee 139'; being unfertilized they can produce nothing else. Their egg lay- ing is very irregular. Single cells often contain a dozen or more eggs. While the work of the worker bees is in the main remark- able and unapproachable, when they attempt something for which they are not qualified by nature, they make a miserable failure of it. The difficulty of introducing a laying queen is greatly increased in a colony infested with these obnoxious laying Fig. 55. Natural built queen cells, the uppermost one having hatched, DEONES The drones are males. They are the largest bees in the hive and have no sting. They make a great deal of noise and bluster in the world, but their accomplishments are not prominently in evidence. They are typical gentlemen of leisure, enjoying the freedom of the home, living on the fat of the land, taking fre-. 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 Wright, Wheeler Dennison. [Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, printers
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