. Bees and bee-keeping: a plain, practical work: resulting from years of experience and close observation in extensive apiaries, both in Pennsylvania and California. With directions how to make bee-keeping a desirable and lucrative business and for shipping bees to California. Bees. 12 BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. to the rest of the colony what they shall and what they shall not do, with that pomp and dignity sup- posed to be the prerogative of earthly potentates gen- erally; but for the humble position and for the sim- ple purpose of laying eggs from which the young are reared, and thus becomes the
. Bees and bee-keeping: a plain, practical work: resulting from years of experience and close observation in extensive apiaries, both in Pennsylvania and California. With directions how to make bee-keeping a desirable and lucrative business and for shipping bees to California. Bees. 12 BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. to the rest of the colony what they shall and what they shall not do, with that pomp and dignity sup- posed to be the prerogative of earthly potentates gen- erally; but for the humble position and for the sim- ple purpose of laying eggs from which the young are reared, and thus becomes the means of extending and perpetuating her species. In discussing this part of my subject, my expe- rience will necessarily lead me to differ, on some points, from writers whose ipse dixit is generally re- ceived as orthodox. DESCRIPTION OP THE QUEEN. The queen, or mother bee, is easily distinguished from all other bees in the colony, by a more measured, sedate movement; the greater length of her body, which tapers gradually to a point; the proportionate shortness of her the queen. wings, which reach but little beyond her middle, ending about the third ring of her ab- domen, but are very strong and sinewy; her head is rounder, her trunk or thorax more slender and but little more than half the length of that of the com- mon worker bee; her legs, though longer, have nei- ther brushes nor baskets for collecting pollen; she differs in color from all other bees in the colony, as much as in shape—the upper part of her body is of a much brighter black, the under surface and the legs are of a dark orange or copper color, the hind legs being rather darker than the 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 Harbison, W. C. N. Y. Saxton
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