. The American farmer. A hand-book of agriculture for the farm and garden ... Agriculture. BEES. 41T Tlie Drone. — The second class of bees are the drones. These are larger in llie body than either the queen or the woriiing-bee. Their head is rounder, proboscis shorter, eyes fuller, and no sting. They also make more noise in (lying than the other bees. The drones are the males of the hive; by Fig. them the queen is impregnated and her eggs fertilized, though this latter may be said to be a point not yet definitely settled by those who have inves- tigated the subject. During the summer th
. The American farmer. A hand-book of agriculture for the farm and garden ... Agriculture. BEES. 41T Tlie Drone. — The second class of bees are the drones. These are larger in llie body than either the queen or the woriiing-bee. Their head is rounder, proboscis shorter, eyes fuller, and no sting. They also make more noise in (lying than the other bees. The drones are the males of the hive; by Fig. them the queen is impregnated and her eggs fertilized, though this latter may be said to be a point not yet definitely settled by those who have inves- tigated the subject. During the summer the drones remain dispersed through different parts of the hive, in a state of idleness; but towards its close they assemble together in companies, as if preparing for their impending fate, which they await in patience, or rather, perhaps, in motionless lethargy. At the end of summer, in August or the end of July, they are ignominiously expelled from the hive, and even slain, by the workers, as if they, being no longer of any utility to the community, should not be fed from the store during winter. The Worhing-hee. — The third class is the working-bee, the most inter- esting of all. It is considerably less than either the queen-bee or the drone ; it is about half an inch in length, of a blackish-brown color, covered with closely-set hairs all over the body, which aid it in carrying the farina it gathers from the flowers; and on the fore-arm, as it were, of the hind legs, Fig. 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 O'Neill, F. W; Williams, H. L. New York, C. W. Carleton & co.
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