Archive image from page 78 of Bees their natural history and. Bees: their natural history and general management: comprising a full and experimental examination of the various systems of native and foreign apiarians; with an analytical exposition of the errors of the theory of Huber; containing, also, the latest discoveries & improvements in every department of the apiary, with a description of the most approved hives now in use CUbiodiversity1178150 Year: 1842 ( The Queen, or Mother Bee, holds the first rank in the colony;—she is the parent of all the young queens, drones, and work- ing bees
Archive image from page 78 of Bees their natural history and. Bees: their natural history and general management: comprising a full and experimental examination of the various systems of native and foreign apiarians; with an analytical exposition of the errors of the theory of Huber; containing, also, the latest discoveries & improvements in every department of the apiary, with a description of the most approved hives now in use CUbiodiversity1178150 Year: 1842 ( The Queen, or Mother Bee, holds the first rank in the colony;—she is the parent of all the young queens, drones, and work- ing bees : in fine, of the whole family, who emigrate from an old hive to found a new establishment, and form for themselves a colony in another place. The make of this wonderful insect is wholly different from that of the other bees. Like the drones, she has no triangular cavities in her hinder legs, which are appropriated, in the common bee, to the re- ception of the farina of plants. Her teeth are smaller than those of the common bee, but larger than those of the drones, and she has no brushy substance at the end of her feet;—in regard to her body, she is longer and more taper than the drone, but the most decided characteristic of the queen bee, is the shortness of her wings, which extend only to the third ring of her body, whilst the wings of the work- ing bees, and especially those of the drones, extend almost the whole length of the body. From this comparative short- ness of her wings, the g# queen flies with greater JmP tllWlttwfkiA difficulty than the wor king bee, and, indeed, I during her life, it sel- ' dom happens that she I has any occasion for | them. The under part f of her body is of a golden colour, and the upper part of a brighter brown, than that of the common bee. In the interior of her body the eggs are distributed
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