. The honey-makers. Bees. 98 The Honey-Makers curved rods, moving sting and sheath up and down inde- pendently of each other. In the iUustration on page 97 the sting is entirely with- drawn ; in the following one it is forced out to its full extent,. and it will be noticed that the left-hand lance is a little the lower. The foregoing illustrations are taken from a sting, the upper parts of which have been flattened out somewhat, in order to get an unobstructed view of the working appara- tus ; in nature the two sides of the sting are folded towards each other so that the plates Z, Z, for insta
. The honey-makers. Bees. 98 The Honey-Makers curved rods, moving sting and sheath up and down inde- pendently of each other. In the iUustration on page 97 the sting is entirely with- drawn ; in the following one it is forced out to its full extent,. and it will be noticed that the left-hand lance is a little the lower. The foregoing illustrations are taken from a sting, the upper parts of which have been flattened out somewhat, in order to get an unobstructed view of the working appara- tus ; in nature the two sides of the sting are folded towards each other so that the plates Z, Z, for instance, are more nearly parallel instead of, as in the picture, standing on the same plane. A side view of the sting in its natural position in the bee makes the working of the mechanism clearer. Bee-poison expresses the concentrated anger of the bee, and to that is generally added more or less anger of our own, which probably assists the action of the 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 Morley, Margaret Warner, 1858-1923. Chicago, A. C. McClurg and company
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