. The animals and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology. Zoology; Physiology. 432 THE ANIMALS AND MAN Try to observe the making of wax and the building of comb in the hive (fig. 221). The process is as follows: after having fed bountifully on honey and pollen from the food cells a number of bees gather together at the toj) of the hive and there hang in a mass, usually buzzing the wings violently. After a while small drops of liquid wax ooze out on the under side of the body. There are several pairs of small scale-like folds of the skin, called wax plates, on the under sid
. The animals and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology. Zoology; Physiology. 432 THE ANIMALS AND MAN Try to observe the making of wax and the building of comb in the hive (fig. 221). The process is as follows: after having fed bountifully on honey and pollen from the food cells a number of bees gather together at the toj) of the hive and there hang in a mass, usually buzzing the wings violently. After a while small drops of liquid wax ooze out on the under side of the body. There are several pairs of small scale-like folds of the skin, called wax plates, on the under side of the hinder or abdominal body-rings. On these plates the wax spreads out and hardens into tiny. Fig. 220. Honeybees gathering pollen and nectar. thin sheets. After some of it has been made by a bee it leaves its wax-making companions and goes to the place where a new comb is to be builded or is building. Here it nips off its wax by means of its hind legs, which are fur- nished with a scissors-like arrangement, and with its broad, trowel-like jaws moulds it on the forming cells. Examine the "wax-shears" on the hindmost legs of a dead bee and also the trowel-like jaws. Make drawings. Watch care- fully the growth of the new comb. Of what shape are the new cells? Are they all of the same size? Is the bottom. 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 Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman), 1867-1937; McCracken, Mary Isabel. New York, H. Holt and Company
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