. Langstroth on the hive & honey bee. Bees. THE WORKER-BEE. 81 The age which individual members of the community may attain, must not be confounded with that of the colony. Bees ha^•e been known to occupj' the same domicile for a great number of years. We have seen flourishing colonies more than twenty years old; the Abbe Delia Rocca speaks of some over forty years old; and Stoche says that he saw a colony, which. Fig. 35. COMBS OF BEOOD. (Forty Years Among the Bees.) he was assured had swarmed annually for fortj^-six years! Such cases have led to the erroneous opinion, that bees are a lon
. Langstroth on the hive & honey bee. Bees. THE WORKER-BEE. 81 The age which individual members of the community may attain, must not be confounded with that of the colony. Bees ha^•e been known to occupj' the same domicile for a great number of years. We have seen flourishing colonies more than twenty years old; the Abbe Delia Rocca speaks of some over forty years old; and Stoche says that he saw a colony, which. Fig. 35. COMBS OF BEOOD. (Forty Years Among the Bees.) he was assured had swarmed annually for fortj^-six years! Such cases have led to the erroneous opinion, that bees are a long-lived race. But this, as Dr. Evans* has observed, is just as wise as if a stranger, contemplating a populous city, and personally unacquainted with its inhabitants, should, on paying it a second visit, many years after, and finding it equally populous, imagine that it was peopled by the same individuals, not one of whom might then be living. * Dr. Evans was an English physician, and the author of a beauti- ful poem on 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 Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine), 1810-1895; Dadant, C. P. (Camille Pierre), 1851-1938. Hamilton, Ill. , Dadant & sons
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