. Langstroth on the hive & honey bee. Bees. pens, or when the harvest- is short and the weather is cool, the bees sometimes build them upwards; but they are far from having the usual regularity. Combs are made of wax, a natural secretion which is produced by bees somewhat as cattle produce fat, by eating. 200. "Wax is not chemieally a fat or glyceride, yet it is nearly allied to the fats in atomic constitution, and the I physiological conditions fa- voring the formation of one are curiously similar to those aiding in the produc- I tion of the other. We put our poultry up to fat in con
. Langstroth on the hive & honey bee. Bees. pens, or when the harvest- is short and the weather is cool, the bees sometimes build them upwards; but they are far from having the usual regularity. Combs are made of wax, a natural secretion which is produced by bees somewhat as cattle produce fat, by eating. 200. "Wax is not chemieally a fat or glyceride, yet it is nearly allied to the fats in atomic constitution, and the I physiological conditions fa- voring the formation of one are curiously similar to those aiding in the produc- I tion of the other. We put our poultry up to fat in con- finement, with partial light, to secure bodily inactivity, we keep warm and feed highly. Our bees, under Nature's teaching, put themselves up to yield wax under conditions so parallel, that the suitability of the fatting coops is vindi- cated. ''—(Cheshire.) ^ Yet let it not be thought that beeswax is the fat of the bee, but its production is on similar lines. 301. If they remain quietly clustered together, when gorged with honey, or any liquid sweet, the wax is se- creted in the shape of delicate scales in four small pouches, on each side of the abdomen, of worker-bees. Fig. 42. WAX SCALES. (Magnified.). "These scales, of an irreg- ular pentagonal shape, are so thin and light, that one hun- dred of them hardly weigh as much as a kernel of ; —(Dubini, "L';) 203. In the young bees, which are endowed with a great appetite, they form, probably, without their knowledge, dur- Fig. 43. SECRETION OF "WAX SCALES. (Magnified.) (From the "Ulustrierte Bienen- neitung,"). 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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