. Langstroth on the hive & honey bee. Bees. THE WOBKEK-BEE. 79 brood is too old to be used to raise another, and the colony is doomed. That other colonies may not be victims of similar accidents, owing to the scarcity of drones, Nature endows this worthless colony with the faculty of drone-raising. It is by the same provision of Nature that unhealthy trees, on the eve of death, are seen covered with blossoms and fruits. They make the strongest efforts to save their race from extinction, and perish afterwards. ITS. The drone-laying of worker-bees is easily discovered by the Apiarist. - Thei
. Langstroth on the hive & honey bee. Bees. THE WOBKEK-BEE. 79 brood is too old to be used to raise another, and the colony is doomed. That other colonies may not be victims of similar accidents, owing to the scarcity of drones, Nature endows this worthless colony with the faculty of drone-raising. It is by the same provision of Nature that unhealthy trees, on the eve of death, are seen covered with blossoms and fruits. They make the strongest efforts to save their race from extinction, and perish afterwards. ITS. The drone-laying of worker-bees is easily discovered by the Apiarist. - Their eggs are laid without order, some cells containing grown larvae, or sealed pupse, by the side of cells containing eggs; while the eggs of a queen are very regularly. Fig. 34. BEOOD FHOM DHONE-LAYING WOEKEK. (Forty Years Among the Bees.) By C. C. Miller. laid. Huber states that the fertile workers prefer large cells in which ,to deposit their drone eggs, resorting to small ones only when unable to find those of greater diameter. A hive in our Apiary having much worker-comb, but only a small piece of drone size, a fertile worker filled the latter so entirely with eggs that some of the cells contained three or four 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 Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine), 1810-1895; Dadant, C. P. (Camille Pierre), 1851-1938. Hamilton, Ill. , Dadant & sons
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