. Bees & bee-keeping; scientific and practical. A complete treatise on the anatomy, physiology, floral relations, and profitable management of the hive bee. Bee culture; Bees. ORGANS OF THE QUEEN. 231 and Lieberkiihn—we find the netting disposed in a radiating pattern, reminding one of the cordage over a balloon, which leads up to the strong ring at top. In the centre lies a single aperture (the micropyle) marking the point for the insertion of the funiculus, by which the egg was attached during its growth, and from which it separated itself when sufficiently matured. The minuteness of the
. Bees & bee-keeping; scientific and practical. A complete treatise on the anatomy, physiology, floral relations, and profitable management of the hive bee. Bee culture; Bees. ORGANS OF THE QUEEN. 231 and Lieberkiihn—we find the netting disposed in a radiating pattern, reminding one of the cordage over a balloon, which leads up to the strong ring at top. In the centre lies a single aperture (the micropyle) marking the point for the insertion of the funiculus, by which the egg was attached during its growth, and from which it separated itself when sufficiently matured. The minuteness of the opening does not prevent its being continued through the underlying. Fig. 46.—Bee-Egg and Details. A, Position of Eggs at Base of Cells (Natural Size). B, Egg (Magnified Twenty-five times), showing Reticulated Chorion—c, Base attached to Cell Bottom ; ma, Micropylar Aperture. C, Chorion (Magnified 200 times). D, Micropylar Aperture (Magnified 100 times). egg membranes, and giving an opportunity of entrance to the spermatozoon, whose rhythmic movements, as though guided bv intelligence, conduct it to the micropyle when the egg passes within the fertilising pouch, on its road towards being laid in a worker cell. The wondrous thread enters, coalesces with the germ, brings about fertilisation, and effects the resulting sex, as previously recited facts force us to believe. The egg so impregnated yields a female,. 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 Cheshire, Frank Richard, 1833?-1894. London, L. U. Gill
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