. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 856 Home Nature-Study The A. I. Root observation hive, at the left. The box cover stomach filled with nec- tar and disgorges this into a cell. When a bee comes in loaded with pollen she first brushes it from the pollen bas- kets on her hind legs into the cell; later an- other worker comes along and packs the poller, grains into the cell with her head, which is a comical sight. The bee nurses run about on the comb
. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 856 Home Nature-Study The A. I. Root observation hive, at the left. The box cover stomach filled with nec- tar and disgorges this into a cell. When a bee comes in loaded with pollen she first brushes it from the pollen bas- kets on her hind legs into the cell; later an- other worker comes along and packs the poller, grains into the cell with her head, which is a comical sight. The bee nurses run about on the comb feeding the young bee grubs partially digested honey and pollen regurgitated from their own stomachs. Whenever the queen moves about the comb she is followed by a retinue of devoted attendants which feed her on the rich and perfectly digested royal jelly and also take care of her royal person and give her every attention possible. The queen, when laying, thrusts her abdomen into the cell and glues a little white egg to the bottom. The specially interesting thing about this is that the queen always lays an egg which will produce a female or worker in the smaller cells and will always lay an egg to produce a drone or male in the larger cells. If there is any foreign sub- stance in the observation hive it is interesting to see the bees go to work at once to remove it. They dump all of the debris out in front of the hive. They close all crevices in the hive and will always curtain the glass if the door is kept open too much with propolis or bee glue, which is a very sticky substance which they get from leaf buds and other vegetable sources. When bees fan to set up a current of air in the hive they glide back and forth, moving the wings so rapidly that one can only see a blurr about their bodies. If drones are developed in the hive it is interesting to see how tenderly they are fed by their sister workers, although they do not hesitate to help themselves to the honey stored in the c
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