. Langstroth on the hive & honey bee. Bees. Fig. 29. COILED IN THE CELL. (Magnified. From Sartori and Rausch- enfels.) count of the pollen, and can be seen thrnugh the skin of the larva.''— (Dubini.) 167. "The larva, or grub, grows apace, but not without experienc ing a difficulty to which the human family is, in some sort, subject in the period of youth. Its coat is inelastic and does not grow with the wearer, so that it soon, iitting badly, has to be thrown off; but, happily in the case of the larva, a new and larger one has already been formed beneath it, and the discarded garment,
. Langstroth on the hive & honey bee. Bees. Fig. 29. COILED IN THE CELL. (Magnified. From Sartori and Rausch- enfels.) count of the pollen, and can be seen thrnugh the skin of the larva.''— (Dubini.) 167. "The larva, or grub, grows apace, but not without experienc ing a difficulty to which the human family is, in some sort, subject in the period of youth. Its coat is inelastic and does not grow with the wearer, so that it soon, iitting badly, has to be thrown off; but, happily in the case of the larva, a new and larger one has already been formed beneath it, and the discarded garment, more delicate than gos- samer, is pushed to the bottom of the ;—(Cheshire.) 168. "The nursing- bees now seal over the cell with a light brown cover, externally more or less convex (the cap of a drone-cell being more convex than that. Fig. 30. STRETCHED IN 5:HE CELL. (Magnified.) of a worker), and thus differing from that of a honey - cell, which is paler and somewhat ;—(" Bevan on the ;) The cap of the brood-cell is made not of pure wax, but of a mixture of bee-bread and wax; and appears under the microscope to be full of fine holes, to give air to the in- closed insect. From its texture and shape it is easily thrust off by the bee when mature, whereas if it consisted wholly of wax, the insect would either perish for lack of air, or be unable to force its way into the world. Both the material and shape of the lids which close the honey-cells are differ- ent : they are of pure wax, and are slightly concave, the better to resist the pressure of their contents. The bees sometimes neglect to cap the cells of some of the brood, and some per- sons have thought that this brood was diseased, but it hatches. 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 Langstr
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