. Beekeeping; a discussion of the life of the honeybee and of the production of honey. Bees; Honey. 112 Beekeeping Schiemenz/ and after him by Cheshire,^ to be the source of food given by the work- ers to the larvse of queens, drones and workers. It is claimed that the de- velopment of these glands is in propor- tion to the special- ization of the species in the feeding of the larvffi; in bumble- bees (Bombus) they are as well developed as in the honeybee. They are decreas- ingly smaller in Psi- thyrus, Andrena and Anthophora. Since the feeding of some of these species is entirely unlike that
. Beekeeping; a discussion of the life of the honeybee and of the production of honey. Bees; Honey. 112 Beekeeping Schiemenz/ and after him by Cheshire,^ to be the source of food given by the work- ers to the larvse of queens, drones and workers. It is claimed that the de- velopment of these glands is in propor- tion to the special- ization of the species in the feeding of the larvffi; in bumble- bees (Bombus) they are as well developed as in the honeybee. They are decreas- ingly smaller in Psi- thyrus, Andrena and Anthophora. Since the feeding of some of these species is entirely unlike that of the honeybee, this evolution perhaps proves too much for this theory. Schonfeld,' on the contrary, holds that the larval food arises in the ventriculus and not in these. Fig. 60. — Alimentary canal of worker, show- ing glands, pharynx (Phy), oesophagus ((E), honey-stomach (HS), proventriculus (Pvent), ventriculus (Vent), intestine (SInt), rectal ampulla {Reel) and Malpighian tubules (.Mai). ' Schiemenz, Paulus, 1883. Ueber des Herkommen des Futtersaftes und die Speicheldrusen der Bienen, nebst einem Anhange iiber das Reichor- gan. Zeit. f. wiss. Zool., XXXVIII, pp. 71-135. ^ Cheshire, 1886. Bees and beekeeping. 2 vols., London: L. Upeott Gill. ' Schonfeld, 1886. Die physiologische Bedeutuug des Magenmundes der Honigbiene. Arch. f. Anat. und Physiol. Abth., pp. 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 Phillips, Everett Franklin, 1878-1951. New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co. , ltd.
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